[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

taste \taste\ t=ast, v. t. imp.  p. p. tasted; p. pr. 
   vb. n. tasting. oe. tasten to feel, to taste, of. taster,
   f. tater to feel, to try by the touch, to try, to taste,
   assumed ll. taxitare, fr. l. taxare to touch sharply, to
   estimate. see tax, v. t.
   1. to try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. obs.
      --chapman.
      1913 webster

            taste it well and stone thou shalt it find.
                                                  --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   2. to try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
      or flavor of anything by taking a small quantity into a
      mouth. also used figuratively.
      1913 webster

            when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water
            that was made wine.                   --john ii. 9.
      1913 webster

            when commodus had once tasted human blood, he became
            incapable of pity or remorse.         --gibbon.
      1913 webster

   3. to try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
      1913 webster

            i tasted a little of this honey.      --1 sam. xiv.
                                                  29.
      1913 webster

   4. to become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to
      experience; to undergo.
      1913 webster

            he . . . should taste death for every man. --heb.
                                                  ii. 9.
      1913 webster

   5. to partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an
      implied sense of relish or pleasure.
      1913 webster

            thou . . . wilt taste
            no pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary. --milton.
      1913 webster
see also:
tasted tasting tax 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

taste \taste\, v. i.
   1. to try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only;
      to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind
      of wine.
      1913 webster

   2. to have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by
      which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to
      have a particular quality or character; as, this water
      tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic.
      1913 webster

            yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason
            shall to the king taste of this action. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to take sparingly.
      1913 webster

            for age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. to have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake;
      as, to taste of nature's bounty. --waller.
      1913 webster

            the valiant never taste of death but once. --shak.
      1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

taste \taste\, n.
   1. the act of tasting; gustation.
      1913 webster

   2. a particular sensation excited by the application of a
      substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any
      substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as,
      the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an
      acid taste; a sweet taste.
      1913 webster

   3. physiol. the one of the five senses by which certain
      properties of bodies called their taste, savor, flavor
      are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.
      1913 webster

   note: taste depends mainly on the contact of soluble matter
         with the terminal organs connected with branches of
         the glossopharyngeal and other nerves in the papillae
         on the surface of the tongue. the base of the tongue is
         considered most sensitive to bitter substances, the
         point to sweet and acid substances.
         1913 webster

   4. intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with
      of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.
      1913 webster

            i have no taste
            of popular applause.                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   5. the power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human
      performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order,
      congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes
      excellence, particularly in the fine arts and
      belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.
      1913 webster

   6. manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in
      accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in
      good taste; an epitaph in bad taste.
      1913 webster

   7. essay; trial; experience; experiment. --shak.
      1913 webster

   8. a small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tasted
      or eaten; a bit. --bacon.
      1913 webster

   9. a kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
      1913 webster

   syn: savor; relish; flavor; sensibility; gout.

   usage: taste, sensibility, judgment. some consider
          taste as a mere sensibility, and others as a simple
          exercise of judgment; but a union of both is requisite
          to the existence of anything which deserves the name.
          an original sense of the beautiful is just as
          necessary to aesthetic judgments, as a sense of right
          and wrong to the formation of any just conclusions on
          moral subjects. but this "sense of the beautiful" is
          not an arbitrary principle. it is under the guidance
          of reason; it grows in delicacy and correctness with
          the progress of the individual and of society at
          large; it has its laws, which are seated in the nature
          of man; and it is in the development of these laws
          that we find the true "standard of taste."
          1913 webster

                what, then, is taste, but those internal powers,
                active and strong, and feelingly alive
                to each fine impulse? a discerning sense
                of decent and sublime, with quick disgust
                from things deformed, or disarranged, or gross
                in species? this, nor gems, nor stores of gold,
                nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow,
                but god alone, when first his active hand
                imprints the secret bias of the soul.
                                                  --akenside.
          1913 webster

   taste buds, or taste goblets anat., the flask-shaped
      end organs of taste in the epithelium of the tongue. they
      are made up of modified epithelial cells arranged somewhat
      like leaves in a bud.
      1913 webster
see also:
taste sensibility judgment taste buds taste goblets 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

taste
     n 1: the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and
          throat convey information about the chemical composition
          of a soluble stimulus; "the candy left him with a bad
          taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste" syn: taste
          sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory
          perception
     2: a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature";
        "the irish have a penchant for blarney" syn: preference,
         penchant, predilection
     3: delicate discrimination especially of aesthetic values;
        "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid
        success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate
        in bad taste" syn: appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness
     4: a brief experience of something; "he got a taste of life on
        the wild side"; "she enjoyed her brief taste of
        independence"
     5: a small amount eaten or drunk; "take a taste--you'll like
        it" syn: mouthful
     6: the faculty of taste; "his cold deprived him of his sense of
        taste" syn: gustation, sense of taste, gustatory
        modality
     7: a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the
        taste buds; "a wine tasting" syn: tasting
     v 1: have flavor; taste of something syn: savor, savour
     2: take a sample of; "try these new crackers"; "sample the
        regional dishes" syn: sample, try, try out
     3: perceive by the sense of taste; "can you taste the garlic?"
     4: have a distinctive or characteristic taste; "this tastes of
        nutmeg" syn: smack
     5: distinguish flavors; "we tasted wines last night"
     6: experience briefly; "the ex-slave tasted freedom shortly
        before she died"
see also:
taste sensation gustatory sensation taste perception gustatory perception preference penchant 
predilection appreciation discernment perceptiveness mouthful 
gustation sense of taste gustatory modality tasting savor 
savour sample try try out smack 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

359 moby thesaurus words for "taste":
   atticism, affection, affinity, appetence, appetite, appreciate,
   appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciativeness,
   apprehend, appropriateness, aroma, artistic judgment, assay,
   attribute, badge, bag, be aware of, be conscious of, be exposed to,
   be fond of, be partial to, be sensible of, be subjected to, bent,
   bias, bit, bite, brand, break bread, bring to test, cachet,
   canine appetite, cast, censoriousness, character, characteristic,
   chasteness, chastity, choosiness, chosen kind, chromesthesia,
   clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, color hearing,
   come up against, comeliness, comprehension, configuration, confirm,
   connoisseurship, conscientiousness, correctness, count calories,
   critical niceness, criticalness, crush, cultivation, cup of tea,
   cut, cut and try, dash, decorum, delicacy, delight in, design,
   desire, diet, differentia, differential, dignity, directness,
   discernment, discretion, discriminating taste, discriminatingness,
   discrimination, discriminativeness, disposition, distinction,
   distinctive feature, drop, drought, druthers, dryness, earmark,
   ease, eat, elegance, elegancy, emptiness, empty stomach, encounter,
   endure, enjoy, essay, examine, example, experience, experiment,
   fall to, fancy, fare, fashion, fastidiousness, favor, feature,
   feed, feel, feeling, felicitousness, felicity, figure, fine palate,
   finesse, finish, fittingness, five senses, flavor, flow,
   flowing periods, fluency, fondness, form, give a try,
   give a tryout, gleam, go through, good taste, grace, gracefulness,
   gracility, grain, gust, gusto, hallmark, have, have a go,
   have knowledge of, hear, hearing, heart, hint, hollow hunger,
   hunger, hungriness, idea, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, impress,
   impression, inclination, index, individualism, infatuation,
   intimation, judgement, judiciousness, keynote, know, labor under,
   leaning, lick, like, likes, liking, limpidity, lineaments,
   little bite, little smack, look, love, lucidity,
   making distinctions, manner, mannerism, mark, marking, meet,
   meet up with, meet with, meticulousness, mode, mold, morsel, motif,
   mouthful, naturalness, nature, neatness, niceness of distinction,
   nicety, nip, odor, palate, partake, partake of, partiality,
   particular choice, particularity, particularness, pass through,
   passion, pay, peculiarity, pellucidity, penchant, perceive,
   perception, perfectionism, personal choice, perspicuity, phonism,
   photism, piece, pinch, pitch in, plainness, play around with,
   polish, politeness, politesse, polydipsia, practice upon,
   preciseness, precisianism, precision, predilection, predisposition,
   preference, prejudice, prepossession, priggishness, proclivity,
   property, propriety, prove, prudishness, punctilio,
   punctiliousness, purism, puritanism, purity, put to trial, quality,
   quirk, receptor, refined discrimination, refined palate,
   refinement, relish, research, respond, respond to stimuli,
   restraint, road-test, run a sample, run up against, sample,
   sampling, sapidity, sapor, savor, scintilla, scrupulosity,
   scrupulousness, seal, see, seemliness, selectiveness, selectivity,
   sense, sense organ, senses, sensibility, sensillum, sensitivity,
   sensorium, sensory organ, shade, shadow, shake down, shape, sight,
   simplicity, singularity, sip, sixth sense, smack, smack the lips,
   smattering, smell, smoothness, soft, soupcon, spark, specialty,
   specimen, spend, sprinkling, stamp, stand under, stomach,
   straightforwardness, strictness, style, stylishness, substantiate,
   subtlety, suffer, suggestion, sup, suspicion, sustain, swallow,
   swatch, sweet tooth, synesthesia, tact, tactfulness, taint, take,
   tang, tapeworm, taste of, tastefulness, taster, tendency,
   terseness, test, thing, thirst, thirstiness, thought, tincture,
   tinge, token, tolerance, torment of tantalus, touch, trace, trait,
   trick, trifle, try, try it on, try out, type, unaffectedness,
   undergo, understanding, validate, verify, weakness, whiff, wink,
   zest

[6] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

taste primarily mit n. 1. the quality in a program that tends to be
   inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges
   programmed into it. also `tasty', `tasteful', `tastefulness'. "this
   feature comes in n tasty flavors." although `tasty' and `flavorful' are
   essentially synonyms, `taste' and flavor are not. taste refers to
   sound judgment on the part of the creator; a program or feature can
   _exhibit_ taste but cannot _have_ taste. on the other hand, a feature
   can have flavor. also, flavor has the additional meaning of `kind'
   or `variety' not shared by `taste'. the marked sense of flavor is more
   popular than `taste', though both are widely used. see also elegant.
   2. alt. sp. of tayste.


see also:
flavor elegant tayste 

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

taste
     
        1. primarily mit the quality of a program that tends to be
        inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and
        kluges it contains.  taste refers to sound judgment on the
        part of the creator.  see also elegant, flavour.
     
        2. alternative spelling of "tayste".
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
kluge elegant flavour tayste jargon file 

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