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{ "term": "taste", "partOfSpeech": "noun", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "a2", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "the particular quality that different foods and drinks have that allows you to recognize them when you put them in your mouth", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "a sweet/salty/bitter/sour taste" }, { "text": "I don't like the taste of olives." }, { "text": "This dish has an unusual combination of tastes and textures." }, { "text": "The soup has very little taste." }, { "text": "I never have sweet drinks with food—it spoils the taste." }, { "text": "He sensed the taste of blood in his mouth." }, { "text": "I had a strong coffee to take away the nasty taste of the food." }, { "text": "She savoured the taste of the champagne." }, { "text": "The drink left a bitter taste in his mouth." }, { "text": "You need to use fresh herbs to get the authentic Italian taste." } ], "topics": ["Cooking and eating"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["delicious", "fresh", "nice"], "verb + taste": ["have", "leave", "affect"], "taste + noun": ["buds"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "the sense you have that allows you to recognize different foods and drinks when you put them in your mouth", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "I've lost my sense of taste." } ] }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "a small quantity of food or drink that you try in order to see what it is like", "examples": [ { "text": "Just have a taste of this cheese." }, { "text": "Do you want a taste?" } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["brief", "little", "small"], "verb + taste": ["get", "have", "taste"], "preposition": ["taste of"], "phrases": ["a taste of things to come"] } }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "a short experience of something", "examples": [ { "text": "This was my first taste of live theatre." }, { "text": "Although we didn't know it, this incident was **a taste of things to come**." } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["brief", "little", "small"], "verb + taste": ["get", "have", "taste"], "preposition": ["taste of"], "phrases": ["a taste of things to come"] } }, { "senseNumber": 5, "definition": "a person’s ability to choose things that people recognize as being of good quality or appropriate", "sensetop": "taste in something", "cefr": "b2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "He has very **good taste** in music.", "contextForm": "taste in something" }, { "text": "They've got more money than taste." }, { "text": "She's famous for her impeccable taste and style." }, { "text": "The room was furnished with taste." }, { "text": "The remark showed a deplorable lack of taste." }, { "text": "The designer has exercised good taste in her choice of fabrics." }, { "text": "Her work is executed with impeccable taste." }, { "text": "Contemporary arbiters of taste dismissed his paintings as rubbish." } ], "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["excellent", "exquisite", "fine"], "verb + taste": ["reflect", "show", "exercise"], "preposition": ["in … taste", "with taste", "taste in"], "phrases": [ "an arbiter of taste", "in the best possible taste", "in the worst possible taste" ] } }, { "senseNumber": 6, "definition": "what a person likes or prefers", "sensetop": "taste for somethingtaste in somethingto somebody's taste", "cefr": "b2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "You can adapt the recipe to suit your personal taste." }, { "text": "That trip gave me a taste for foreign travel.", "contextForm": "taste for something" }, { "text": "to develop/acquire a taste for luxury" }, { "text": "He has very expensive taste in clothes.", "contextForm": "taste in something" }, { "text": "The colour and style is **a matter of** personal **taste**" }, { "text": "Modern art is not to everyone's taste.", "contextForm": "to somebody's taste" }, { "text": "There are trips to suit all tastes." }, { "text": "They have a taste for adventure." }, { "text": "Her choice of outfit demonstrated her taste for the outrageous." }, { "text": "Now he is retired he has time to indulge his tastes for writing and politics." }, { "text": "People with a taste for complex plots will enjoy this book." }, { "text": "Her music appeals to popular taste." }, { "text": "His tastes run to the exotic." }, { "text": "If fishing is not to your taste, there are many other leisure activities on offer." }, { "text": "The house reflected his tastes." }, { "text": "The music was too modern for my taste." }, { "text": "You obviously share her taste in reading." }, { "text": "He has an unusual taste in music." } ], "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["catholic", "eclectic", "varied"], "verb + taste": ["have", "like", "share"], "taste + verb": ["lie", "run", "change"], "preposition": ["for somebody’s taste", "to taste", "to your taste"], "phrases": [ "a man/woman of … tastes", "a matter of (personal) taste", "a wide range/variety of tastes" ] } }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "a thing that you do not like much at first but gradually learn to like", "examples": [ { "text": "Abstract art is an acquired taste." } ], "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to be offensive and not at all appropriate", "examples": [ { "text": "Most of his jokes were in very poor taste." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to be appropriate and not at all offensive", "examples": [ { "text": "The love scenes are all done in the best possible taste." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to make you feel upset or ashamed afterwards", "examples": [ { "text": "The whole business left a bad taste in my mouth." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "the same bad treatment that you have given to others", "examples": [ { "text": "Let the bully have a taste of his own medicine." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "used to say how difficult it is to understand why somebody likes somebody/something that you do not like at all", "labels": "(saying)", "examples": [ { "text": "They think it's wonderful—oh well, there's no accounting for taste." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "in the quantity that is needed to make something taste the way you prefer", "examples": [ { "text": "Add salt and pepper to taste." } ] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/teɪst/", "audio": "ta/taste/taste__gb_1.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/teɪst/", "audio": "ta/taste/taste__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "Middle English (also in the sense ‘touch’): from Old French tast (noun), taster (verb) ‘touch, try, taste’, perhaps based on a blend of Latin tangere ‘to touch’ and gustare ‘to taste’." }