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Noun tasting has 3 senses
- tasting(n = noun.cognition) Array - a small amount (especially of food or wine); Array is a kind of sample
- tasting(n = noun.act) taste - a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds; "a wine tasting" is a kind of perception, sensing
- tasting(n = noun.act) degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring - taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most" is a kind of eating, feeding
Derived form verb taste3
Derived forms verb taste2, verb taste4
Derived form verb taste3
CIDE DICTIONARY
tasting, n.
The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tasting, n. a gathering at which food or drink (esp. wine) is tasted and evaluated.
THESAURUS
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, wolfingROGET THESAURUS
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Taste
N taste, good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste, delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse, nicety, to prepon, polish, elegance, grace, judgment, discernment, dilettantism, dilettanteism, virtu, fine art, culture, cultivation, aesthetics, man of taste, connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist, caviare to the general, in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty, unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic, cultivated, refined, dainty, esthetic, aesthetic, artistic, elegant, euphemistic, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy, comme il faut, tire a quatre epingles, elegantly, nihil tetigit quod non ornavit, chacun a son gout, oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus, taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor, gout, relish, sapor, sapidity, twang, smack, smatch, aftertaste, tang, tasting, degustation, gustation, palate, tongue, tooth, stomach, sapid, saporific, gustable, gustatory, gustful, strong, gamy, palatable.
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