to+one's+taste
1to one's taste — To one s liking, agreeable to one • • • Main Entry: ↑taste …
2taste — [tāst] vt. tasted, tasting [ME tasten < OFr taster, to handle, touch, taste < VL * tastare, prob. < * taxitare, freq. of L taxare, to feel, touch sharply, judge of, freq. of tangere: see TACT] 1. Obs. to test by touching 2. to test the… …
3so bad one can taste it — mod. very much, indeed. □ I want that car so bad I can taste it. □ He had to get to Philadelphia so bad he could taste it …
4one's cup of tea — see under ↑tea • • • Main Entry: ↑cup one s cup of tea (informal) What is to one s taste or appeals to one • • • Main Entry: ↑tea …
5Taste — I (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Taste >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 taste taste flavor gust gusto savor Sgm: N 1 gout gout relish Sgm: N 1 sapor| sapor| sapidity Sgm: N 1 twang …
6taste — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I v. savor; sample. n. flavor; tasting, morsel, sample; predilection, relish, preference; judgment.See taste, choice. II Sense of flavor Nouns 1. taste, tastefulness; good or cultivated taste; delicacy,… …
7taste — tastable, tasteable, adj. /tayst/, v., tasted, tasting, n. v.t. 1. to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food. 2. to eat or drink a little of: She barely tasted her dinner. 3. to eat or drink… …
8Taste — (or, more formally, gustation) is a form of direct chemoreception and is one of the traditional five senses. It refers to the ability to detect the flavor of substances such as food and poisons. In humans and many other vertebrate animals the… …
9taste — n 1 Taste, flavor, savor, tang, relish, smack can all mean the property of a substance which makes it perceptible to the gustatory sense. Taste not only is the most inclusive of these terms but it gives no suggestion of a specific character or… …
10taste bud — one of numerous small, flask shaped bodies, chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue, which are the end organs for the sense of taste. [1885 90] * * * ▪ anatomy small organ located on the tongue in terrestrial vertebrates (vertebrate) that… …
