Taste vs Fitting - What's the difference?
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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. ().
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*:"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;."
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, 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
(informal, US, with infinitive) Ready, preparing.
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Ready, appropriate, or in keeping
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, title= A small detachable part of a device or machine.
The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.
(manufacturing) The process of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products.
(chiefly, British) Domestic moveable piece of furniture, which can be taken along when moving out, US furnishing..
As nouns the difference between taste and fitting
is that taste is key, button while fitting is a small detachable part of a device or machine.As a verb fitting is
.As an adjective fitting is
ready, appropriate, or in keeping.taste
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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
Synonyms
* smack, smakeExternal links
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* * * 1000 English basic words ----fitting
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Alternative forms
* (ready) fittin', fittinVerb
(head)- I'm fitting to go home and sleep.
Synonyms
* (ready) fixing to (see also going to)Adjective
(en adjective)Arsenal 1-0 Everton, passage=It was a fitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner.}}
Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe, passage=And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.” }}
Noun
(en noun)- the fittings of a church or study