tasteとは

語源

From Middle English tasten, from Old French taster from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxitāre, a new iterative of Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”). Almost displaced native Middle English smaken, smakien (“to taste”) (from 古期英語 smacian (“to taste”)), Middle English smecchen (“to taste, smack”) (from 古期英語 smæċċan (“to taste”)) (whence Modern English smack), Middle English buriȝen (“to taste”) (from 古期英語 byrigan, birian (“to taste”)).

発音

• IPA^(key): /teɪst/
• 韻: -eɪst

名詞

taste (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tastes)

1. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).
2. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc. (Wikipedia).

   Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:

     "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.

3. Personal preference; liking; predilection.

   I have developed a taste for fine wine.

4. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
5. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

同意語

• (sensation produced by the tongue): smack, smatch; See also Thesaurus:gustation
• (set of preferences): discernment, culture, refinement, style
• (personal preference): See also Thesaurus:predilection
• (small amount of experience): impression, sample, trial

下位語

• (sensation produced by the tongue): relish, savor

Meronyms

• (sensation produced by the tongue): bitter, salty, sour, sweet, umami

派生語

動詞

taste (三人称単数 現在形 tastes, 現在分詞 tasting, 過去形および過去分詞形 tasted)

1. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
   • Bible, John ii. 9

     when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine

2. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.

   The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.

3. To experience.

   I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.

   They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

   • Bible, Heb. ii. 9

     He […] should taste death for every man.

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, Act II, scene ii, page 117, column 1:

     Cowards dye many times before their deaths, / The valiant neuer taſte of death but once: […]

   • Milton

     Thou […] wilt taste / No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.

4. To take sparingly.
   • Dryden

     Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.

5. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
   • Bible, 1 Sam. xiv. 29

     I tasted a little of this honey.

6. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.
   • Chapman

     to taste a bow

同意語

• (sample the flavor of something): smack, smake; See also Thesaurus:taste
• (have a taste): hint, smack; See also Thesaurus:have taste

Further reading

• taste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• taste in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• taste at OneLook Dictionary Search
• "taste" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 313.

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