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TASTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality
Example:
cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most
Synonyms:
degustation; relishing; savoring; savouring; tasting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("tasting" is a kind of...):
eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)
Derivation:
taste (take a sample of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
Example:
a wine tasting
Synonyms:
taste; tasting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("tasting" is a kind of...):
perception; sensing (becoming aware of something via the senses)
Derivation:
taste (perceive by the sense of taste)
taste (have a distinctive or characteristic taste)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A small amount (especially of food or wine)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("tasting" is a kind of...):
sample (a small part of something intended as representative of the whole)
Domain member category:
finish ((wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed))
Derivation:
taste (take a sample of)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb taste
Context examples:
With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He sat by John Thornton’s fire, a broad-breasted dog, white-fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves, urgent and prompting, tasting the savor of the meat he ate, thirsting for the water he drank, scenting the wind with him, listening with him and telling him the sounds made by the wild life in the forest, dictating his moods, directing his actions, lying down to sleep with him when he lay down, and dreaming with him and beyond him and becoming themselves the stuff of his dreams.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I observed the doctor sniffing and sniffing, like someone tasting a bad egg.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
"Aunt March is a regular samphire, is she not?" observed Amy, tasting her mixture critically.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Even the fire on the hearth left off blazing, and went to sleep; the jack stopped, and the spit that was turning about with a goose upon it for the king’s dinner stood still; and the cook, who was at that moment pulling the kitchen-boy by the hair to give him a box on the ear for something he had done amiss, let him go, and both fell asleep; the butler, who was slyly tasting the ale, fell asleep with the jug at his lips: and thus everything stood still, and slept soundly.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
