taste

Universal Words noun, verb noun flavour 1 [C,U] the particular quality that different foods and drinks have that allows you to recognize them when you put them in your mouth: a salty / bitter / sweet taste * I don't like the taste of olives. * This dish has an unusual combination of tastes and textures. * The soup has very little taste. sense 2 [U] the sense you have that allows you to recognize different foods and drinks when you put them in your mouth: I've lost my sense of taste. small quantity 3 [C,usually sing.] a small quantity of food or drink that you try in order to see what it is like: Just have a taste of this cheese. * Do you want a taste? short experience 4 [sing.] a short experience of sth: This was my first taste of live theatre. * Although we didn't know it, this incident was a taste of things to come. ability to choose well 5 [U] a person's ability to choose things that people recognize as being of good quality or appropriate: He has very good taste in music. * They've got more money than taste. * The room was furnished with taste. what you like 6 [C,U] ~ (for sth) what a person likes or prefers: That trip gave me a taste for foreign travel. * She has very expensive tastes in clothes. * The colour and style is a matter of personal taste. * Modern art is not to everyone's taste. * There are trips to suit all tastes. IDIOMS be in bad, poor, the worst possible, etc. taste to be offensive and not at all appropriate: Most of his jokes were in very poor taste. be in good, the best possible, etc. taste to be appropriate and not at all offensive leave a bad / nasty taste in the mouth (of events or experiences) to make you feel disgusted or ashamed afterwards to taste in the quantity that is needed to make sth taste the way you prefer: Add salt and pepper to taste. moreatACCOUNTv., ACQUIRE, MEDICINE verb (not used in the progressive tenses) have flavour 1 linking verb ~ (of sth) to have a particular flavour: [V-ADJ] It tastes sweet. * [V] The ice tasted of mint. * This drink tastes like sherry. 2 (-tasting) (in adjectives) having a particular flavour: foul-tasting medicine recognize flavour 3 [VN] (often used with can or could) to be able to recognize flavours in food and drink: You can taste the garlic in this stew. * I can't really taste anything with this cold. test flavour 4 [VN] to test the flavour of sth by eating or drinking a small amount of it: Taste it and see if you think there's enough salt in it. eat / drink 5 [VN] to eat or drink food or liquid: I've never tasted anything like it. have short experience 6 [VN] to have a short experience of sth, especially sth that you want more of: He had tasted freedom only to lose it again.