TASTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tasting mean? 

• TASTING (noun)
  The noun TASTING has 3 senses:

1. a small amount (especially of food or wine)

2. a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds

3. taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality

  Familiarity information: TASTING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TASTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small amount (especially of food or wine)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("tasting" is a kind of...):

sample (a small part of something intended as representative of the whole)

Domain member category:

finish ((wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed))

Derivation:

taste (take a sample of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

taste; tasting

Context example:

a wine tasting

Hypernyms ("tasting" is a kind of...):

perception; sensing (becoming aware of something via the senses)

Derivation:

taste (perceive by the sense of taste)

taste (have a distinctive or characteristic taste)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

degustation; relishing; savoring; savouring; tasting

Context example:

cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most

Hypernyms ("tasting" is a kind of...):

eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)

Derivation:

taste (take a sample of)

 Context examples 

You don't catch me tasting rum so much, but just a thimbleful for luck, of course, the first chance I have.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But when he saw it he could not deny himself the pleasure of tasting it, so he cut of a little bit and put it into his mouth.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Who would be hurt by my once more tasting the life his glance can give me?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But punch, my dear Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, tasting it, like time and tide, waits for no man.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"It must be very disagreeable to sleep in a tent, and eat all sorts of bad-tasting things, and drink out of a tin mug," sighed Amy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The process is like being given a slice of cake and trying to figure out the recipe by tasting it.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

The normal growth of babies can be broken down into the following areas: • Gross motor - controlling the head, sitting, crawling, maybe even starting to walk • Fine motor - holding a spoon, picking up a piece of cereal between thumb and finger • Sensory - seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling • Language - starting to make sounds, learning some words, understanding what people say • Social - the ability to play with family members and other children

(Infant and Newborn Development, NIH)

Symptoms of dry mouth include: • A sticky, dry feeling in the mouth • Trouble chewing, swallowing, tasting, or speaking • A burning feeling in the mouth • A dry feeling in the throat • Cracked lips • A dry, rough tongue • Mouth sores • An infection in the mouth

(Dry Mouth, NIH: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Disorders)

She had only to submit, sit down, be outwardly composed, and feel herself plunged at once in all the agitations which she had merely laid her account of tasting a little before the morning closed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A solid dosage form containing medicinal substances with or without suitable diluents that is intended to be chewed, producing a pleasant tasting residue in the oral cavity that is easily swallowed and does not leave a bitter or unpleasant after-taste.

(Chewable Tablet Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)