(n.) A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
(v. t.) To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.
(v. t.) To taste before another.
Example Sentences:
(1) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(2) Abnormal events such as Hurricane Sandy , which cost $65bn (£40bn) and the 2011-12 US drought, which cost $35bn (£21bn) may be just foretasters of the price to be paid.
(3) Viewers in Scotland, deprived of some of its big dramas, are experiencing a foretaste of a watered-down version.
(4) The suspension of children's heart surgery at Leeds general infirmary and the subsequent battle to restart operations is a foretaste of what will become a familiar chain of events in the NHS post Mid-Staffordshire.
(5) To obtain the bailout, Hollande, who insisted he inherited the debts from the right, has had to oversee local cuts and budgetary "rigour", a foretaste, perhaps, of what is to come if he finds himself handling the country's public spending deficit.
(6) As a foretaste, discussions over the justice and home affairs opt-back-in were delayed because Spain raised objections connected to the status of Gibraltar – just the kind of tricky subject that goes unnoticed when everyone is part of the same EU and then becomes extremely awkward when someone decides unilaterally to change the rules of the game.
(7) The criticism he offered last Tuesday offers a foretaste of a line of attack against Clinton that has served him so well already in the campaign.
(8) That means unemployment is going to get a lot worse next year and today's rises are merely a foretaste of things to come.
(9) If these exchanges were any foretaste of the televised debates that will inevitably happen, they might prove to be less than enlightening.
(10) But in saying that he "expects" the two parties to campaign separately at the next general election , he was providing a foretaste of a nightmare for most of Clegg's foot soldiers – come 2015, those Lib Dem MPs who cling to their seats will do so thanks to Cameron's largesse.
(11) "Fifty years after the March on Washington and the 'I have a dream' speech, obviously we've made enormous strides," the president said on Friday, in a foretaste of his speech.
(12) If Dave was having trouble convincing Siemens of his brilliance, it was only a foretaste of the stick he will face from some of his backbenchers.
(13) A foretaste of the arguments likely to erupt came from Guthrie, who told the Guardian: "It was a totally unnecessary war.
(14) Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc.
(15) The brief tabloid fury that followed was a foretaste of the storm that would later break over Jonathan Ross.
(16) Yesterday's package was only a foretaste, but was nonetheless instructive, not least because easy cuts to things like IT programmes represented only a modest proportion of the total.
(17) It is a frightening foretaste of the Tory manifesto and the assault on liberty that could follow an outright Conservative win in 2015, and yet even now – under a coalition with avowed liberals – the bartering away of ancient freedoms is picking up pace, as we will see with today's crunch Commons votes on plans to plunge public courtrooms into darkness.
(18) The criticism aimed at Mark Carney, the Bank’s governor, for his comments during the Scottish and EU referendums are merely a foretaste of what it can expect if another crisis erupts in the next few years.
(19) These cries are a mere foretaste of the horrors ahead, as a close reading of the bill confirms.
(20) Scotland and north-western England are receiving a foretaste of the change, with heavy rain and thunder increasing on Tuesday, and severe weather amber alerts – meaning "be aware" – issued for the whole of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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.