Relish vs Odor - What's the difference?
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A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 12.
* Milton
* Addison
Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.
* Alexander Pope
A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.
* Macaulay
* Cowper
That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable or to stimulate the appetite; a condiment.
A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment.
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In a wooden frame, the projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.
(obsolete) To taste; to have a specified taste or flavour.
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* Shakespeare
* Woodward
To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeable, to make appetizing.
* Dryden
To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of; to take great pleasure in.
* Shakespeare
* Atterbury
Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
(figuratively) A strong, pervasive quality.
Esteem; repute.
Relish is a related term of odor.
As nouns the difference between relish and odor
is that relish is a pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing while odor is any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.As a verb relish
is (obsolete|intransitive) to taste; to have a specified taste or flavour.relish
English
(wikipedia relish)Noun
(es)- A Laplander or Negro has no notion of the relish of wine.
- Much pleasure we have lost while we abstained / From this delightful fruit, nor known till now / True relish , tasting.
- When liberty is gone, / Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish .
- It preserves some relish of old writing.
- a relish for whatever was excellent in arts
- I have a relish for moderate praise, because it bids fair to be judicious.
Hyponyms
* See alsoVerb
(es)- honourable enterprises are accompanied with dangers and damages, as experience evinceth; they will make the rest of thy life relish the better.
- Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits.
- A theory, which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature.
- a sav'ry bit that served to relish wine
- He relishes their time together.
- I don't relish the idea of going out tonight.
- Now I begin to relish thy advice.
- He knows how to prize his advantages, and to relish the honours which he enjoys.
Synonyms
* appreciate * delight in * enjoy * like * revelodor
English
(wikipedia odor)Alternative forms
* odourNoun
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.