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Definition: Sense Of Taste |
Sense Of TasteNoun1. The faculty of taste; "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Sense whose receptors are located in the mouth, particularly on the tongue, and which are activated by various compounds in solution. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Sense Of TasteSynonyms: gustation (n), gustatory modality (n), taste (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sense Of Taste |
| English words defined with "sense of taste": delectable, delicious ♦ gustation, gustatory modality ♦ insipid ♦ luscious ♦ mouth-watering ♦ pleasant-tasting ♦ savory, savoury, scrumptious ♦ taste, taste property, tasteless, tasty, toothsome ♦ yummy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sense of taste": Ageusia ♦ Dysgeusia ♦ Seven Senses. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sense of taste": genius ♦ sapient. (references) |
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Screenplays | You don't even have a sense of taste! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
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Health | Some types of chemotherapy may temporarily alter your child's sense of taste. (references) | |
The most common chemosensory complaints are a loss of the sense of smell and the sense of taste. (references) | ||
Side effects may include coughing, skin rashes, fluid retention, excess potassium in the bloodstream, kidney problems, and an altered or lost sense of taste. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sense of taste | 42 |
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| Language | Translations for "sense of taste"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حاسة الذوق (taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | smag (acceptance, flavour, gustation, palatability, savour, taste, tastiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | smaak (good taste, savour, taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | gustumo (taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | makuaisti (taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | goût. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Geschmackssinn (gustation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | αισθητήριο γεύσης (taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megízlelés (taste), ízlelés (gustation, taste, tasting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | senso del gusto (taste), gusto (acceptance, enjoyment, fancy, Flavor, flavour, gusto, kick, liking, palatability, palate, relish, savor, savour, smack, spice, taste, tastiness, zest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 味覚 (palate, taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | みかく (palate, taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | keeall vlastyn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ensesay ofay astetay sentido do gosto (gustation, palate, taste), prova (attestation, competition, confirmation, evidence, examination, experiment, fitting, investigation, proof, rehearsal, sensory analysis, sensory evaluation, sensory test, shew, shibboleth, show, sign, slip, taste, taste panel, taste test, tasting, test, testimony, testing, token, trace, trial, try, try out, voucher, warrant), paladar (flavour, gustation, gustatory, palate, savor, savour, spice, tang, taste, tooth), gosto (dribblet, fellow feeling, flak, Flavor, flavour, fondness, gust, gusto, like, liking, palate, pleasure, proper, raciness, relish, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savour, spice, style, taste, tooth, treat, zest). (various references) sentido gustativo (taste), gusto (fancy, favoritism, favouritism, Flavor, flavour, liking, pleasure, relish, savor, savour, taste, tastefulness, treat, zest, zing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | palato, palatum, saporem, saporis. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-f-n-o-s-s-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: fatnesses, fossettes. | |
-4 letters: fastness, fossette, oftenest, safeness, sensates, softness, stenoses. | |
-5 letters: assents, entases, estates, fastens, fastest, fatness, fatsoes, fattens, featest, fossate, neatest, notates, sateens, seasons, senates, sensate, sestets, settees, softens, softest, tassets, tensest, testees, testons, tsetses. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-f-n-o-s-s-s-t-t" | |
+3 letters: fortunatenesses, softheartedness. | |
+5 letters: softheartednesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6E 73 65      4F 66      54 61 73 74 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01010100 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n s e   O f   T a s t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0073 0065      004F 0066      0054 0061 0073 0074 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53718085712497225467858671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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