Tra từ taste - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

▪ I. taste [taste tastes tasted tasting] noun, verb BrE [teɪst] NAmE [teɪst]
noun

FLAVOUR
1. countable, uncountable the particular quality that different foods and drinks have that allows you to recognize them when you put them in your mouth
•a salty/bitter/sweet, etc. taste
• I don't like the taste of olives.
• This dish has an unusual combination of tastes and textures.
•The soup has very little taste.

SENSE
2. uncountable the sense you have that allows you to recognize different foods and drinks when you put them in your mouth
• I've lost my sense of taste.

SMALL QUANTITY
3. countable, usually singular a small quantity of food or drink that you try in order to see what it is like
• Just have a taste of this cheese.
• Do you want a taste?

SHORT EXPERIENCE
4. singular a short experience of sth
•This was my first taste of live theatre.
•Although we didn't know it, this incident was a taste of things to come.

ABILITY TO CHOOSE WELL
5. uncountable a person's ability to choose things that people recognize as being of good quality or appropriate
• He has very good taste in music.
• They've got more money than taste.
•The room was furnished with taste.

WHAT YOU LIKE
6. countable, uncountable what a person likes or prefers
•~ (for sth) That trip gave me a taste for foreign travel.
•~ (in sth) She has very expensive tastes in clothes.
•The colour and style is a matter of personal taste.
•Modern art is not to everyone's taste.
•There are trips to suit all tastes.
more at there's no accounting for taste at ↑account _v., an acquired taste at ↑acquire, a taste/dose of your own medicine at ↑medicine

Word Origin:
Middle English (also in the sense ‘touch’): from Old French tast (noun), taster (verb) ‘touch, try, taste’, perhaps based on a blend of Latin tangere ‘to touch’ and gustare ‘to taste’.

Example Bank:
•Art is an acquired taste— no one is born knowing that Michelangelo is wonderful.
•Contemporary arbiters of taste dismissed his paintings as rubbish.
•Don't have a cigarette now— you'll spoil the taste of your food!
•Have a taste of this cake.
•He could feel the taste of blood in his mouth.
•Her choice of outfit demonstrated her taste for the outrageous.
•Her music appeals to popular taste.
•Her work is executed with impeccable taste.
•His tastes run to the exotic.
•I had a strong coffee to take away the nasty taste of the food.
•I've lost my taste for exotic trips.
•If fishing is not to your taste, there are many other leisure activities on offer.
•It all depends on where your tastes lie.
•Lifestyles differ and tastes vary.
•Modern art is an acquired taste.
•Now he is retired he has time to indulge his tastes for writing and politics.
•People with a taste for complex plots will enjoy this book.
•She has terrible taste in clothing.
•She savoured the taste of the champagne.
•That job gave me my first real taste of teaching.
•That joke was in very poor taste.
•The designer has exercised good taste in her choice of fabrics.
•The drink left a bitter taste in his mouth.
•The film was judged to offend against standards of public taste and decency.
•The house reflected his taste.
•The love scenes are all done in the best possible taste.
•The music was too modern for my taste.
•The new appraisal plan is only a taste of things to come.
•The remark showed a deplorable lack of taste.
•The room had been decorated with great taste.
•The soup had a very salty taste.
•The whole business left a bad taste in my mouth.
•They have a taste for adventure.
•This was her first taste of success.
•What type of bicycle you should buy is very much a matter of personal taste.
•You need to use fresh herbs to get the authentic Italian taste.
•You obviously share her taste in reading.
•a man of advanced tastes
•a range of hotels to suit all tastes and budgets
•the changing tastes of consumers
•young people's tastes in music
•He has an unusual taste in music.
•Modern art is not to everyone's taste.
•Salt stimulates the taste buds on the tongue.
•She has a real taste for adventure/designer clothes.
•She has a very expensive taste in clothes.
•The colour and style is a matter of personal taste.
•The soup doesn't have much taste.
•They've got more money than taste.
Idioms: in bad/poor/the worst possible taste ▪ in good/the best possible taste ▪ ↑leave a bad taste in the mouth

verb (not used in the progressive tenses)

HAVE FLAVOUR
1. linking verb to have a particular flavour
•+ adj. It tastes sweet.
•~ of sth The ice tasted of mint.
•~ like sth This drink tastes like sherry.
2. -tasting (in adjectives)having a particular flavour
•foul-tasting medicine

RECOGNIZE FLAVOUR
3. transitive ~ sth (often used with can or could)to be able to recognize flavours in food and drink
• You can taste the garlic in this stew.
• I can't really taste anything with this cold.

TEST FLAVOUR
4. transitive ~ sth to test the flavour of sth by eating or drinking a small amount of it
Syn: ↑try
• Taste it and see if you think there's enough salt in it.

EAT/DRINK
5. transitive ~ sth to eat or drink food or liquid
• I've never tasted anything like it.

HAVE SHORT EXPERIENCE
6. transitive ~ sth to have a short experience of sth, especially sth that you want more of
• He had tasted freedom only to lose it again.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English (also in the sense ‘touch’): from Old French tast (noun), taster (verb) ‘touch, try, taste’, perhaps based on a blend of Latin tangere ‘to touch’ and gustare ‘to taste’.

Example Bank:
•The fish tasted faintly of garlic.
•The fruit tasted rather like mango.
•The water tasted strongly of chemicals.
•a cake which tasted of almonds
•I haven't tasted meat since I started the journey.
•I've never tasted anything like it.
•Taste it and see if you think there's enough salt in it.
•Would you like to taste the wine?

▪ II. to ˈtaste idiom
in the quantity that is needed to make sth taste the way you prefer
•Add salt and pepper to taste.
Main entry: ↑taste_idiom