Taste vs Scent - 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 distinctive odour or smell.
An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
The sense of smell.
A perfume.
(figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone.
to detect the scent of
* Shakespeare
to impart an odour to
* Dryden
To have a smell.
* Holland
To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
Taste is a related term of scent.
As nouns the difference between taste and scent
is that taste is key, button while scent is a distinctive odour or smell.As a verb scent is
to detect the scent of.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 ----scent
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- the scent of flowers
- the scent of a skunk
- The dogs lost the scent .
- I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs.
Usage notes
* Almost always applied to agreeable odors (fragrances ).Synonyms
* fragrance * perfume * aroma * odor * smellDerived terms
* scentlessVerb
- The hounds scented the fox in the woods.
- Methinks I scent the morning air.
- Scent the air with burning sage before you begin your meditation.
- Balm from a silver box distilled around, / Shall all bedew the roots, and scent the sacred ground.
- Thunderbolts do scent strongly of brimstone.