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Gustation vs Taste - What's the difference?

gustation | taste |

As nouns the difference between gustation and taste

is that gustation is the act of tasting while taste is one of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).

As a verb taste is

to sample the flavor of something orally.

gustation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of tasting.
  • *1841 , Robley Dunglison, Human Physiology , page 109
  • *:The organ of gustation is not, therefore, restricted to the production of that sense, but participates in the sense of touch.
  • The ability to taste flavors; the sense of taste.
  • taste

    English

    Alternative forms

    * tast (obsolete)

    Noun

  • 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 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.}}
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * smack, smatch

    Hyponyms

    * relish, savor

    Derived terms

    * champagne taste on a beer budget * acquired taste * tasteless * taste of one's own medicine * tasty * to taste

    Verb

    (tast)
  • To sample the flavor of something orally.
  • * Bible, John ii. 9
  • when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine
  • To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
  • The chicken tasted' great, but the milk ' tasted like garlic.
  • To experience.
  • I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
    They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The valiant never taste of death but once.
  • * Bible, Heb. ii. 9
  • He should taste death for every man.
  • * Milton
  • Thou wilt taste / No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.
  • To take sparingly.
  • * Dryden
  • Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
  • To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xiv. 29
  • I tasted a little of this honey.
  • (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.
  • * Chapman
  • to taste a bow

    Synonyms

    * smack, smake

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