What's the difference between dulcet and taste?

Dulcet


Definition:

  • (a.) Sweet to the taste; luscious.
  • (a.) Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They drifted in, to the smell of pork roasting and the dulcet tones of Billie Holiday.
  • (2) Of the 229 people detained as part of Operation Dulcet – the huge drive to bring lawbreakers to justice – 174 have been charged with offences including riotous assembly, affray, unlawful assembly, assault on police and criminal damage.
  • (3) Williams, 58, has reportedly learned to mimic Boyle's dulcet tones on a version of her audition song for the ITV talent show, I Dreamed a Dream.
  • (4) Think of writer and columnist Bryony Gordon’s revelations that her lover is so wrapped up in his job that he makes her have sex “to the dulcet tones of Jeremy Paxman berating an MP over the financial crisis”.
  • (5) Term for "female boss who doesn't always talk in the sweet dulcet tones of angels with the patience of a bank of saints": boss.
  • (6) Operation Dulcet is investigating rioting, hijacking of vehicles, attacks on politicians' offices, threats made against politicians, un-notified processions and social media-based offences.
  • (7) Preferable to a more sophisticated Zionist leadership that will throw sand in the eyes of the international community and talk in dulcet tones about a political agreement with the Palestinians, but will do all it can to prevent Palestinian independence.
  • (8) Still, it does give us the chance to hear the dulcet tones of Macy Gray again as she takes the reins midway through and carries the song to its heartfelt finale of – altogether now – "M.E.G.A, MegaUpload."

Taste


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.
  • (v. t.) To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively.
  • (v. t.) To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
  • (v. t.) To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.
  • (v. t.) To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.
  • (v. i.) To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine.
  • (v. i.) To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic.
  • (v. i.) To take sparingly.
  • (v. i.) To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty.
  • (n.) The act of tasting; gustation.
  • (n.) A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste.
  • (n.) The one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.
  • (n.) Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.
  • (n.) The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.
  • (n.) Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste.
  • (n.) Essay; trial; experience; experiment.
  • (n.) A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tastted of eaten; a bit.
  • (n.) A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
  • (2) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (3) The importance of the other factors associated with taste is also discussed.
  • (4) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
  • (5) Tissue sections, taken from foliate and circumvallate papillae, generally revealed taste buds in which all cells were immunoreactive; however, occasionally some taste buds were found to contain highly reactive individual cells adjacent to non-reactive cells.
  • (6) Umami taste appears to signal, at the gustatory level, the intake of proteins, therefore the working hypothesis was: does umami taste of a monosodium glutamate (MSG) solution elicit changes in both glucagon and insulin release, similar to those elicited by amino acids, and consequently, changes in plasma glucose and in overall cellular metabolism?
  • (7) The impact of von Békésy's microstimulation experiments on the physiology of taste is discussed.
  • (8) Often, flavorings such as chocolate and strawberry and sugars are added to low-fat and skim milk to make up for the loss of taste when the fat is removed.
  • (9) The possibility of applying Signal Detection Theory (SDT) to gustation was investigated by testing the effect of three variables--smoking, signal probability, and food intake (confounded with time of day)--on the taste sensitivity to sucrose of 24 male and 24 female Ss.
  • (10) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
  • (11) The lid is fiddly to fit on to the cup, and smells so strongly of silicone it almost entirely ruins the taste of the coffee if you don’t remove it.
  • (12) When the rats were given the two-bottle taste aversion test neither compound was found to be aversive.
  • (13) Drowsiness and altered taste perception were increased significantly over placebo only in the high-dose azelastine group.
  • (14) Application of 1 mM BT (pH 6.3) to the human tongue statistically potentiated the taste of 0.2 M NaCl and 0.2 M LiCl by 33.5% and 12.5% respectively.
  • (15) The sensitivity of the taste system to the various qualities was, in decreasing order, salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
  • (16) A transient increase in the membrane potential was observed when distilled water was applied to the membrane adapted to an appropriate salt solution, which was similar to the water response observed in taste cells.
  • (17) In contrast, periadolescent animals demonstrated a marked resistance to amphetamine's taste aversion inducing properties when compared with either infant or young adult animals.
  • (18) Denatonium, a very bitter substance, caused a rise in the intracellular calcium concentration due to release from internal stores in a small subpopulation of taste cells.
  • (19) A history and physical examination focused on signs and symptoms of chemosensory disorders, in combination with screening tests for taste and smell function, can quickly and easily delineate the general type and cause of the dysfunction.
  • (20) For humans, taste plays a key role in food selection.