tasting
tay sting
- n a small amount (especially of food or wine)
- n a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
a wine tasting - n taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality
- v have flavor; taste of something
- v perceive by the sense of taste
- v take a sample of
- v have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- v distinguish flavors
- v experience briefly
- Another 20 were downed at a wine-tasting party with a dozen friends.
- A meal lasts for hours, alternating between sweet and savory, hot and cold, familiar and otherworldly: fried rabbit ears, for instance, translucently thin and tasting like pork .
- The Paris tasting was to become a subject of great controversy.