Vaster vs Taster - What's the difference?

vaster | taster |

As an adjective vaster

is (vast).

As a noun taster is

that in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.

vaster

English

Adjective

(head)

(vast)

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vast

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).

The Sahara desert is vast .

There is a vast difference between them.

Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.

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(obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.

* William Shakespeare, the Life and Death of Richard the Third Act I, scene IV:

the empty, vast , and wandering air

Noun

(en noun)

(poetic) A vast space.

* 1608': they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a '''vast , and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. — William Shakespeare, ''The Winter's Tale , I.i

Derived terms

* vastly * vastness * ultravast

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taster

English

Noun

(en noun)

That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.

One who tastes anything, especially food, wine etc., for quality.

* Dryden

Thy tutor be thy taster , ere thou eat.

(zoology) A kind of zooid situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora, resembling the feeding zooids, but destitute of mouths.

A person who is, by genetic makeup, able to taste phenylthiocarbamide

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