(sweet in taste or smell)

  • 61sweet — 1 /swi:t/ adjective 1 TASTE having a taste like sugar: This tea is too sweet. | a sweet apple | sweet wine compare bitter 1 (4), dry 1 (9), sour 1 (1) 2 CHARACTER kind, gentle, and friendly: a sweet smile | How sweet of you to remember my… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 62taste — 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,… …

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  • 63taste — I. verb (tasted; tasting) Etymology: Middle English, to touch, test, taste, from Anglo French taster, from Vulgar Latin *taxitare, frequentative of Latin taxare to touch, feel more at tax Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to become acquainted …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 64Smell, inability to — No sense of smell is called anosmia. It can be due to loss of the sense of smell or failure for it to develop. Loss of the sense of smell can be due to a number of things including swelling within the nose that prevents odors from gaining access… …

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  • 65taste — 01. My Mexican friends tell me that British food [tastes] really bland. 02. Would you like a [taste] of my cheesecake? It s delicious. 03. This vegetable sauté is quite [tasty]. Is that ginger you put in it? 04. This spaghetti [tastes] just like… …

    Grammatical examples in English

  • 66taste — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, affection, affinity, appetence, appetite, appreciate, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciativeness, apprehend, appropriateness, aroma, artistic judgment, assay, attribute, badge, bag, be aware… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 67sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate. Also called black birch, cherry birch. [1775 85, Amer.] * * * ▪ tree also called  black birch , cherry birch , and  red birch … …

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  • 68To be sweet on — Sweet Sweet, a. [Compar. {Sweeter}; superl. {Sweetest}.] [OE. swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te, OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s[ u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[ae]tr, s[oe]tr, Sw. s[ o]t, Dan. s[ o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 69Chi's Sweet Home — Cover of Chi s Sweet Home volume 1 as published by Kodansha チーズスイートホーム (chīzu suīto hōmu) …

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  • 70dulcet — [dul′sit] adj. [ME doucet < OFr, dim. of douz, sweet < L dulcis, sweet < ? IE base * dḷku , sweet > Gr glykys] 1. soothing or pleasant to hear; sweet sounding; melodious 2. Archaic sweet to taste or smell dulcetly adv …

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