One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.

The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.

A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.

(countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.

Personal preference; liking; predilection.

(figurative) 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.

(transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.

(intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.

(transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.

(transitive, figurative) To experience.

To take sparingly.

To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.