Sense of taste

  • 1sense of taste — noun the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth his cold deprived him of his sense of taste • Syn: ↑taste, ↑gustation, ↑gustatory modality • Derivationally related forms: ↑gustatory (for: ↑ …

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  • 2sense of taste — one of the five senses, ability to perceive and recognize flavors …

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  • 3Taste — (or, more formally, gustation) is a form of direct chemoreception and is one of the traditional five senses. It refers to the ability to detect the flavor of substances such as food and poisons. In humans and many other vertebrate animals the… …

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  • 4Taste — belongs to our chemical sensing system, or the chemosenses. The complicated process of tasting begins when molecules released by the substances stimulate special cells in the mouth or throat. These special sensory cells transmit messages through… …

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  • 5taste — n 1 Taste, flavor, savor, tang, relish, smack can all mean the property of a substance which makes it perceptible to the gustatory sense. Taste not only is the most inclusive of these terms but it gives no suggestion of a specific character or… …

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  • 6taste — [tāst] vt. tasted, tasting [ME tasten < OFr taster, to handle, touch, taste < VL * tastare, prob. < * taxitare, freq. of L taxare, to feel, touch sharply, judge of, freq. of tangere: see TACT] 1. Obs. to test by touching 2. to test the… …

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  • 7taste´less|ness — taste|less «TAYST lihs», adjective. 1. without taste; flavorless; insipid: »Hot food is tasteless and unpleasant when it is allowed to get cold. SYNONYM(S): flat, vapid. 2. Figurative. uninspiring; dull. 3 …

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  • 8taste´less|ly — taste|less «TAYST lihs», adjective. 1. without taste; flavorless; insipid: »Hot food is tasteless and unpleasant when it is allowed to get cold. SYNONYM(S): flat, vapid. 2. Figurative. uninspiring; dull. 3 …

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  • 9taste|less — «TAYST lihs», adjective. 1. without taste; flavorless; insipid: »Hot food is tasteless and unpleasant when it is allowed to get cold. SYNONYM(S): flat, vapid. 2. Figurative. uninspiring; dull. 3 …

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  • 10taste bud — ► NOUN ▪ any of the clusters of nerve endings on the tongue and in the lining of the mouth which provide the sense of taste …

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