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Enjoy vs Tasting - What's the difference?

enjoy | tasting |

As verbs the difference between enjoy and tasting

is that enjoy is to receive pleasure or satisfaction from something while tasting is .

As a noun tasting is

a small amount of food or drink.

enjoy

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
  • To have the use or benefit of something.
  • * Bible, Numbers xxxvi. 8
  • that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
  • * 1988 , Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays
  • This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
  • To have sexual intercourse with.
  • (Milton)

    Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

    Derived terms

    * enjoyable * enjoyment * to enjoy oneself

    tasting

    English

    (degustation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small amount of food or drink.
  • The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it.
  • Synonyms

    * degustation

    Derived terms

    * wine tasting

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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