Taste vs Favour - What's the difference?

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Taste is a related term of favour.

As nouns the difference between taste and favour

is that taste is key, button while favour is .

As a verb favour is

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

External links

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Anagrams

* * * 1000 English basic words ----

favour

English

Noun

(en noun)

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Verb

(en verb)

* 1611 , :

"And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured , the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." —

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}

Usage notes

* is the standard American spelling, and an alternative in Canada. ----