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Opinion vs Taste - What's the difference?

opinion | taste |

As nouns the difference between opinion and taste

is that opinion is opinion while taste is key, button.

opinion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.
  • I would like to know your opinions on the new systems.
    In my opinion , white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
    Every man is a fool in some man's opinion .
    Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -
  • The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
  • * 1606 , , I. vii. 32:
  • I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
  • * South
  • Friendship gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
  • (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
  • * 1597 , , V. iv. 47:
  • Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion .
  • * Milton
  • This gained Agricola much opinion , who enterprises.
  • (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
  • * 1590 , , V. i. 5:
  • Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion , and / strange without heresy.
  • The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
  • (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible
  • Derived terms

    * advisory opinion * be of the opinion * in my humble opinion/IMHO * in my opinion * in one's opinion * opinion poll * public opinion * scientific opinion * second opinion

    See also

    * fact

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
  • * 1658', But if (as some '''opinion ) King ''Ahasuerus'' were ''Artaxerxes Mnemon'' [...], our magnified ''Cyrus'' was his second Brother — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Graden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 166)
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    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

    Anagrams

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