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• tast (obsolete)

語源 1

The verb is from 中期英語 tasten, borrowed from Old French taster (“to taste, touch or hit”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *tastāre (“to touch or feel”), from *taxitāre, an innovated iterative form of Classical Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch, to grasp”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, which is assumed to have had the same meaning as tangere.
The noun came from the verb, and the two conflated after English lost its infinitive suffix -en, though tasten was most likely already used nominatively (as a gerund), similar to Modern English tasting.

Almost fully displaced native smack, from 中期英語 smac, smak, smacke, from 古期英語 smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”).
Displaced English smatch, from 中期英語 smacchen, smecchen, from 古期英語 smæċċan (“to taste; to smack”); displaced also 中期英語 buriȝen, from 古期英語 bierġan (“to taste”).

発音

• IPA: /teɪst/
• 韻: -eɪst

名詞

taste (countable and uncountable, plural tastes)

1. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.

   He had a strange taste in his mouth.

   Venison has a strong taste.

   • 2023 June 15, Rebecca Wallwork, “‘You had to be there’: Foods that taste better on home turf”, in CNN‎:

     Like smell, taste has been found to imprint our minds with strong memories.

2. The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.

   His taste was impaired by an illness.

3. A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
4. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.

   Synonym: palate

   Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.

   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.i:

     That's very true indeed Sir Peter! after having married you I should never pretend to Taste again I allow.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     "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: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     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.

5. Personal preference; liking; predilection.

   Synonym: palate

   I have developed a taste for fine wine.

6. (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.

   Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward.

   • 1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Official Secrets (Yes, Prime Minister)”, in Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Humphrey Appleby and Bernard Woolley (Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds):

     Sir Humphrey Appleby: Bernard, what do you want? / Bernard Woolley: I want to have a clear conscience. / […] / Sir Humphrey Appleby: When did you acquire this taste for luxuries (laugh track)?

   • 2007, KT Tunstall, “Saving My Face”, in Drastic Fantastic‎:

     I'm all out of luck / I'm all out of faith / I would give everything just for one taste / But everything's here, all out of place […]

7. 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, spicy, umami

派生語

動詞

taste (third-person singular simple present tastes, present participle tasting, simple past and past participle tasted)

1. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 2:9:

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

   • 2023 June 15, Rebecca Wallwork, “‘You had to be there’: Foods that taste better on home turf”, in CNN‎:

     Does a bagel in New York City really taste better because of the water, or is it our desire to feel like a “real” New Yorker, even for a few minutes over breakfast, that does the trick? […] The idea that a pint of Guinness tastes best in Ireland sounds like it could be a drinker’s romantic notion – but there is science to back up the claim. […] The stats were overwhelmingly in favor of the Guinness tasting better in Ireland – suggesting that the beer doesn’t travel well or perhaps that non-Irish bartenders don’t excel at pouring it.

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

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

3. (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.

   I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.

4. (transitive, figurative) To experience.

   I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.

   They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 2:9:

     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, act II, scene ii, page 117, column 1:

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

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

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

   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 4:

     Hopefully, Dux and Julie got to taste some of that good money, because after "No More," there was no more.

5. To take sparingly.
   • 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Dryden[4]

     Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.

6. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 14:29:

     I tasted a little of this honey.

7. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     to taste the bow

     The spelling has been modernized.

同意語

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

派生語

Further reading

• “taste”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “taste”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “taste”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Raymond Williams (1983), “Taste”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 313.

語源 2

形容詞

taste (not comparable)

1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of tasty.

アナグラム

• Tates, Teats, State, teats, state, Tetas, atest, Testa, testa, aetts, Satet

語源

Borrowed from Old French tast.

発音

• IPA: /taːst/, /tast/

名詞

taste (uncountable)

1. perceived flavor

派生した語

• English: taste
• Yola: taaste, tawest, thaaste

参照

• “tā̆st(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.