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say it: tayst
taste is a noun and verb meaning "the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus". It carries 13 recorded senses.
a strong liking
“my own preference is for good literature”
“the Irish have a penchant for blarney”
delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
“arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success”
“to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste”
a brief experience of something
“he got a taste of life on the wild side”
“she enjoyed her brief taste of independence”
a small amount eaten or drunk
“take a taste--you'll like it”
the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
“his cold deprived him of his sense of taste”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for taste come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.