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taste | standard |

As nouns the difference between taste and standard

is that taste is key, button while standard 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

    Anagrams

    * * * 1000 English basic words ----

    standard

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
  • # A level of quality or attainment.
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • # Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
  • #* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
  • the court, which used to be the standard of property and correctness of speech
  • #* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
  • A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
  • # A musical work of established popularity.
  • # A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
  • # The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
  • #* (John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)
  • By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.
  • # A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
  • A vertical pole with something at its apex.
  • # An object supported in an upright position, such as a .
  • #* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , chapter=Foreword, title= The China Governess , passage=β€˜It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}
  • # The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
  • #* Fairfax
  • His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.
  • # One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
  • # Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
  • # A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
  • #* Sir W. Temple
  • In France part of their gardens is laid out for flowers, others for fruits; some standards , some against walls.
  • # The sheth of a plough.
  • A manual transmission vehicle.
  • (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
  • (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
  • A large drinking cup.
  • (Greene)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
  • (of a tree or shrub) Growing on an erect stem of full height.
  • Having recognized excellence or authority.
  • standard''' works in history; '''standard authors
  • Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
  • (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
  • As normally supplied (not optional).
  • Antonyms

    * nonstandard

    Derived terms

    * bog standard * gold standard * double standard * standard-bearer * standard fare * standard gauge * standard lamp * standard language * Standard Model * standard of living * standard poodle * standard time * standard transmission * standard deviation * time standard