Word Meanings - TASTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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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• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• TASTY
  1. Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5. 2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PERCEIVER
  One who perceives . Milton.
• PERCEIVE
  perceptum; per + capere to take, receive. See Capacious, 1. To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• DISTINGUISHABLE
  1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas.
• DISTINGUISH
  1. To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle. 2. To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self
• DISTINGUISHMENT
  Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt.
• TASTO
  A key or thing touched to produce a tone. Tasto solo, single touch; -- in old music, a direction denoting that the notes in the bass over or under which it is written should be performed alone, or with no other chords than unisons and octaves.
• DISTINGUISHABLY
  So as to be distinguished.
• DISTINGUISHING
  Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. Distinguishing pennant , a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet
• PERCEIVABLE
  Capable of being perceived; perceptible. -- Per*ceiv"a*bly, adv.
• TASTER
  One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. (more info) 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food
• DISTINGUISHABLENESS
  The quality of being distinguishable.
• TASTING
  The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.
• DISTINGUISHINGLY
  With distinction; with some mark of preference. Pope.
• DISTINGUISHED
  1. Marked; special. The most distinguished politeness. Mad. D' Arblay. 2. Separated from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds. Syn. -- Marked;
• TASTELESS
  1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit. 2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. Orrery. 3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. -- Taste"less*ly,
• SENSEFUL
  Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. "Senseful speech." Spenser. "Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious." Norris.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• PENTASTICH
  A composition consisting of five verses.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• FANTASTIC
  1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic
• METASTOMA; METASTOME
  A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods.
• DISTASTURE
  Something which excites distaste or disgust. Speed.
• FANTASTICALITY
  Fantastically.
• METASTATIC
  Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.
• HEPTASTICH
  A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.
• APPERCEIVE
  To perceive; to comprehend. Chaucer.
• PANTASTOMATA
  One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms.
• METASTANNATE
  A salt of metastannic acid.
• METASTASIS
  A spiritual change, as during baptism.
• INDISTINGUISHING
  Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson.
• INTASTABLE
  Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. Grew.
• CAPO TASTO
  A sort of bar or movable nut, attached to the finger board of a guitar or other fretted instrument for the purpose of raising uniformly the pitch of all the strings.