[
UK
/tˈeɪstɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈteɪstɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈteɪstɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality
cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most - a small amount (especially of food or wine)
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a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
a wine tasting
How To Use tasting In A Sentence
- Breads, pastries, rice and legume dishes were on display for the viewing and tasting pleasure of interested patrons.
- Grossman's Christmas present, Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, is a holiday favorite among hopheads and is one of the standouts of The News Tribune's Brew Crew Winter Beer Tasting.
- It was one of these dishes that are a tasting menu in and of themselves, giving you the sensory pleasures of a voluptuous feast - only in tiny, manageable portions.
- Smell the tasting sample given to you - swirling it round the glass first if you can. Times, Sunday Times
- The evening was one of the largest consumer tastings of South African wines ever to be held in the UK with over 450 attendees signed up.
- The supermarket holds occasional wine-tasting sessions.
- Some of the new products included on the council's "stocktake" are new farm cottages, guest houses, a diving resort, a fly fishing club, river trips, safaris and mampoer and witblits tasting tours. ANC Daily News Briefing
- A peculiarly subtle expression haunts the lower part, sensual and incredulous, like that of a man tasting good Bordeaux with half a fancy it has been somewhat too long uncorked. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
- He was particularly perturbed that he had no recollection of even seeing the wine, let alone tasting it.
- It's a day where people celebrate by drinking the worst-tasting beer they can find, wearing ratty blue singlet tops with Australian flags as a cape, eating burnt "snags" from the "barbie" and listening to the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown on the radio from the plush confines of a deck chair placed in a kiddie's wading pool. A List For Australia Day