tasting 音标拼音: [t'estɪŋ]
tasting n 1 :
a small amount (
especially of food or wine )
2 :
a kind of sensing ;
distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds ; "
a wine tasting " [
synonym : {
taste }, {
tasting }]
3 :
taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality ;
"
cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most " [
synonym : {
tasting }, {
savoring }, {
savouring }, {
relishing },
{
degustation }]
Taste \
Taste \ (
t [=
a ]
st ),
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 .
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Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find .
--
Chaucer .
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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 .
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When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine . --
John ii .
9 .
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When Commodus had once tasted human blood ,
he became incapable of pity or remorse . --
Gibbon .
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3 .
To try by eating a little ;
to eat a small quantity of .
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I tasted a little of this honey . --
1 Sam .
xiv .
29 .
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4 .
To become acquainted with by actual trial ;
to essay ;
to experience ;
to undergo .
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He . . .
should taste death for every man . --
Heb .
ii .
9 .
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5 .
To partake of ;
to participate in ; --
usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure .
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Thou . . .
wilt taste No pleasure ,
though in pleasure ,
solitary . --
Milton .
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Tasting \
Tast "
ing \,
n .
The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste ;
the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors .
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62 Moby Thesaurus words for "
tasting ":
appetite ,
cannibalism ,
carnivorism ,
carnivority ,
carnivorousness ,
chewing ,
compotation ,
consumption ,
cropping ,
deglutition ,
devouring ,
devourment ,
dieting ,
dining ,
drinking ,
drunkenness ,
eating ,
epulation ,
feasting ,
feeding ,
gluttony ,
gobbling ,
grazing ,
gulping ,
gustation ,
guzzling ,
herbivorism ,
herbivority ,
herbivorousness ,
hunger ,
imbibing ,
imbibition ,
ingestion ,
lapping ,
licking ,
manducation ,
mastication ,
messing ,
munching ,
nibbling ,
nipping ,
nutrition ,
omnivorism ,
omnivorousness ,
omophagy ,
pantophagy ,
pasture ,
pasturing ,
pecking ,
potation ,
pulling ,
quaffing ,
regalement ,
relishing ,
rumination ,
savoring ,
slipping ,
swigging ,
swilling ,
symposium ,
vegetarianism ,
wolfing
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