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1. A small amount (especially of food or wine)
    
2. A kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
   "a wine tasting";
   - taste
    
3. Taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality
   "cooking was fine but it was the tasting that he enjoyed most";
   - savoring [US], savouring [Brit, Cdn], relishing, degustation

1. Have flavour; have a taste of something
   - savor [US], savour [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. Perceive by the sense of taste
   "Can you taste the garlic?"
    
3. Take a sample of
   "taste the regional dishes";
   - sample, try, try out
    
4. Have a distinctive or characteristic taste
   "This tastes of nutmeg";
   - smack
    
5. Distinguish flavours
   "We tasted wines last night"
    
6. Experience briefly
   "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died"

Derived forms: tastings

Type of: comprehend, consume, eating, experience, feeding, have, identify, ingest, know, live, perceive, perception, sample, sensing, take, take in

Encyclopedia: Tasting