Taste vs Hunger - 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;."
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, 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
A need or compelling desire for food.
(by extension) Any strong desire.
* Spenser
To be in need of food.
(figuratively) To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
* Bible, Matthew v. 6
(archaic) To make hungry; to famish.
Taste is a related term of hunger.
As nouns the difference between taste and hunger
is that taste is key, button while hunger is hunger.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
* * *Anagrams
* * * 1000 English basic words ----hunger
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hunger, from (etyl) . Compare Dutch honger, German and Low German Hunger, Swedish hunger.Noun
(en noun)- I have a hunger to win.
- O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!
Usage notes
The phrase be hungry'' is more common than ''have hunger to express a need for food.Antonyms
* satiety * satiationDerived terms
* hunger is the best spiceSee also
* thirstEtymology 2
From (etyl) hyngran.Verb
(en verb)- I hungered for your love.
- Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.