Bland vs Taste - What's the difference?
bland | taste |
Mixture; union.
An agreeable summer beverage prepared from the whey of churned milk, common among the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands.
Mild; soft, gentle, balmy; smooth in manner; suave.
*1818 , (John Keats), Sonnet :
*:Where didst thou find, young Bard, thy sounding lyre? / Where the bland accent, and the tender tone?
*
*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland , invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.
:
Lacking in taste, flavor, or vigor.
:
One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals ().
A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc. ().
:
*
*:"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;."
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
To sample the flavor of something orally.
* Bible, John ii. 9
To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
To experience.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Heb. ii. 9
* Milton
To take sparingly.
* Dryden
To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
* Bible, 1 Sam. xiv. 29
(obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.
* Chapman
As verbs the difference between bland and taste
is that bland is to mix; blend; mingle while taste is to sample the flavor of something orally.As nouns the difference between bland and taste
is that bland is mixture; union while taste is one of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).As an adjective bland
is mild; soft, gentle, balmy; smooth in manner; suave.As a proper noun Bland
is {{surname|lang=en}.bland
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) blanden, blonden, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) bland, from (etyl) bland, .Alternative forms
* (Scotland)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
*Etymology 3
Ultimately from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)References
* ----taste
English
Alternative forms
* tast (obsolete)Noun
citation, passage=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.}}
Synonyms
* smack, smatchHyponyms
* relish, savorDerived terms
* champagne taste on a beer budget * acquired taste * tasteless * taste of one's own medicine * tasty * to tasteVerb
(tast)- when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine
- The chicken tasted' great, but the milk ' tasted like garlic.
- I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
- They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
- The valiant never taste of death but once.
- He should taste death for every man.
- Thou wilt taste / No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.
- Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
- I tasted a little of this honey.
- to taste a bow