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Taste

To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.

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Broader term 22

Aesthesis 76% connected

Sensuous perception.

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Appear 76% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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Comprehend 76% connected

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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Consume 76% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Discrimination 76% connected

The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Identify 76% connected

To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider…

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Ingest 76% connected

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.

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Know 76% connected

Knee.

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Liking 76% connected

of Like

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Live 76% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Modality 76% connected

The quality or state of being modal.

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Perceive 76% connected

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…

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Perception 76% connected

The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discer…

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Savor 76% connected

That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an…

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Secernment 76% connected

The act or process of secreting.

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Seem 76% connected

To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be…

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Sensation 76% connected

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

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Sensing 76% connected

of Sense

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Narrower term 37

Astringency 76% connected

The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contracti…

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Bit 76% connected

The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.

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Bite 76% connected

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…

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Bitter 76% connected

AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.

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Bitterness 76% connected

The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of…

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Connoisseurship 76% connected

State of being a connoisseur.

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Culture 76% connected

The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

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Delicacy 76% connected

The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.

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Discretion 76% connected

Disjunction; separation.

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Finish 76% connected

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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Flatness 76% connected

The quality or state of being flat.

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Flavor 76% connected

That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

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Flavour 76% connected

(physics) the six kinds of quarks

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Mellowness 76% connected

Quality or state of being mellow.

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Morsel 76% connected

A little bite or bit of food.

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Nip 76% connected

A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.

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Relish 76% connected

To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to exper…

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Salinity 76% connected

Salineness.

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salt 76% connected

Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; aft…

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Sapidity 76% connected

The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness.

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Savor 76% connected

That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an…

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Smack 76% connected

A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

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Sour 76% connected

Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.

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Sourness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sour.

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Style 76% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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Sugariness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.

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Sup 76% connected

To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.

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Swallow 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

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Sweet 76% connected

Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet orang…

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Sweetness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.

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Tang 76% connected

A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).

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Tartness 76% connected

The quality or state of being tart.

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Trend 76% connected

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

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Vertu 76% connected

Virtue; power. See Virtue.

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Virtu 76% connected

A love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities.

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Vogue 76% connected

The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in th…

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Weakness 76% connected

The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.

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Manner of action 3

Degust 76% connected

To taste.

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Savor 76% connected

That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an…

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Smack 76% connected

A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

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Derivationally related 4

Sampler 74% connected

One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.

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Sampler 74% connected

One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.

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Tasting 74% connected

of Taste

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Tasting 74% connected

of Taste

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Containing whole 3

Helping 70% connected

of Help

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Portion 70% connected

That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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Serving 70% connected

of Serve

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Attribute 4

Tasteful 66% connected

Having a high relish; savory.

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Tasteful 66% connected

Having a high relish; savory.

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Tasteless 66% connected

Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.

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Tasteless 66% connected

Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.

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Synonym 12

Appreciation 92% connected

A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

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Discernment 92% connected

The act of discerning.

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Gustation 92% connected

The act of tasting.

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Mouthful 92% connected

As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.

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Penchant 92% connected

Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.

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Predilection 92% connected

A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.

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Preference 92% connected

The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice;…

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Sample 92% connected

Example; pattern.

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Savor 92% connected

That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an…

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Smack 92% connected

A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

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Tasting 92% connected

of Taste

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Try 92% connected

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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