taste
part of speech
noun (taste, tastes); verb (taste, tastes, tasted, tasting)
meaning for a pupil
1) The flavour of food or drink in your mouth: "a sweet taste". tree →
2) The sense that lets you notice flavours, mainly with your tongue. tree →
3) As a verb, to try a little food or drink to find its flavour. tree →
4) As a verb, to have a certain flavour: "It tastes salty." tree →
5) What a person likes: "She has good taste in music." tree →
6) A small try: "a taste of life in Canada". tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, taste is one of the five senses; the tongue senses sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savoury (umami); smell helps taste. In safety: never taste unknown liquids, berries, mushrooms or medicines. Phrases: taste of, in good taste, bad taste, taste buds, an acquired taste.
examples
- The lemon tastes sour. tree →
- Taste the soup and add salt if needed. tree →
- We taste with our tongue. tree →
- Never taste berries you don't know. tree →
- I like the taste of strawberries. tree →
- She has great taste in clothes. tree →
- That joke was in bad taste. tree →
- Your taste buds are on your tongue. tree →
- The witch took a spoonful and tasted it. tree →
note
After "taste" use an adjective: "tastes good", not "tastes well". Myth: the tongue does not have separate areas for each taste. Some poisons look like juice — don't taste them.
In the corpora
- AI "tasted" millions of sentences or pictures in the same way and learned what usually goes together.
- A chatbot has no body, so it cannot taste chocolate, smell flowers or feel tired.
- On matters of taste, like cats versus dogs, there is no single right answer, so bots usually avoid taking sides.
- Critics and review sites give scores, but those are opinions, and your own taste may differ.
- Critics write reviews with reasons; you can read their reasons and still disagree, as taste is personal.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «taste» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.