Tasting
['teɪstɪŋ] or ['testɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; 'cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most'.
(noun.) a small amount (especially of food or wine).
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Taste
(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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Examples
- However, in passing a wholesale tea-house he saw a man tasting tea, so he went in and asked the 'taster' if he might have some of the tea. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A man of any rank may, without any reproach, abstain totally from tasting such liquors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We use the crab-apple for preserving even now, although man’s ingenuity has succeeded in inducing nature to give us many better tasting kinds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He had never been hungrier and he filled his mouth with wine, faintly tarry-tasting from the leather bag, and swallowed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It must be very disagreeable to sleep in a tent, and eat all sorts of bad-tasting things, and drink out of a tin mug, sighed Amy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mr. Jackson gave a faint sip, as if he had been tasting invisible Madeira. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But, I say, he whispers, with his eyes screwed up, after tasting it, this ain't the Lord Chancellor's fourteenpenny. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The wine was good, tasting faintly resinous from the wineskin, but excellent, light and clean on his tongue. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Who would be hurt by my once more tasting the life his glance can give me? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Now all of our first seeings and hearings and touchings and smellings and tastings are of this kind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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