Meaning

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

  "He had a strange taste in his mouth."

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

  "His taste was impaired by an illness."

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

• A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.

  "Dr. Parker has good taste in wine."

• Personal preference; liking; predilection.

  "I have developed a taste for fine wine."

• 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.

Meaning

• To sample the flavor of something orally.

• To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.

  "The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic."

• To experience.

  "I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise."

• To take sparingly.

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

• To try by the touch; to handle.