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  • 1taste — [[t]te͟ɪst[/t]] ♦♦ tastes, tasting, tasted 1) N UNCOUNT Taste is one of the five senses that people have. When you have food or drink in your mouth, your sense of taste makes it possible for you to recognize what it is. ...a keen sense of taste.… …

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  • 2taste — n. & v. n. 1 a the sensation characteristic of a soluble substance caused in the mouth and throat by contact with that substance (disliked the taste of garlic). b the faculty of perceiving this sensation (was bitter to the taste). 2 a small… …

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  • 3Taste — (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… …

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  • 4taste — ► NOUN 1) the sensation of flavour perceived in the mouth on contact with a substance. 2) the faculty of perceiving this. 3) a small portion of food or drink taken as a sample. 4) a brief experience of something. 5) a person s liking for… …

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  • 5taste|mak|er — «TAYST MAY kuhr», noun. a person or thing that sets a style or acts as an indicator to mold popular opinion: »For they are the tastemakers and opinion formers the one per cent of the population, roughly, who are imitated by the others (Harper s) …

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  • 6Taste aversion — Conditioned taste aversion[1], also known as Garcia effect (after Dr. John Garcia), and as Sauce Bearnaise Syndrome , a term coined by Seligman and Hager,[2] is an example of classical conditioning or Pavlovian conditioning. Conditioned taste… …

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  • 7Person über Bord — Das Mann über Bord Manöver oder kurz MOB (selten auch: Mensch über Bord Manöver oder Person über Bord Manöver) umfasst alle Maßnahmen zur Rettung eines Menschen, der von einem Wasserfahrzeug über Bord gefallen ist. Das sofort einzuleitende Mann… …

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  • 8Taste of Cherry — Infobox Film name = Taste of Cherry caption = Film Poster amg id = 1:155018 imdb id = 0120265 director = Abbas Kiarostami writer = Abbas Kiarostami starring = Homayon Ershadi Abdolrahman Bagheri Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari Safar Ali Moradi producer …

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  • 9taste — noun 1》 the sensation of flavour perceived in the mouth on contact with a substance.     ↘the faculty of perceiving this. 2》 a small portion of food or drink taken as a sample. 3》 a brief experience of something. 4》 a person s liking for… …

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  • 10taste — 1. noun /teɪst/ a) One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals. Dr. Parker has good taste in wine. b) A person’s implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc …

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