What's the difference between savor and savory?

Savor


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note.
  • (v. t.) To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of.
  • (a.) That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an ill savor.
  • (a.) Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like.
  • (a.) Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.
  • (a.) Pleasure; delight; attractiveness.
  • (n.) To have a particular smell or taste; -- with of.
  • (n.) To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; -- with of.
  • (n.) To use the sense of taste.
  • (v. t.) To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Pope Francis touches down in Havana on Saturday, the modest 78-year-old pontiff will have a chance to savor the rapprochement he helped to broker between the US and Cuba last year – a deal that stunned the world and revived the Vatican’s status as a diplomatic powerhouse .
  • (2) Gipsy Kings ' Savor Flamenco tied with Ladysmith Black Mambazo 's Live: Singing For Peace Around The World.
  • (3) Self-confidence and satisfaction can be greatly enhanced by affectionate closeness, and prolonged foreplay can be savored at any age.
  • (4) World music album: Live: Singing for Peace Around the World, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Savor Flamenco, Gypsy Kings (tie).
  • (5) As predicted, Ss preferred to separate 2 positive events (the gain-savoring hypothesis), to separate 2 negative events (the multiple-loss-avoidance hypothesis), and to combine a positive and a negative event (the loss-buffering hypothesis).
  • (6) A guide rebukes him for being disrespectful: "I eat the sandwich anyway, almost defiantly, making sure that I savor every last crumb.
  • (7) Gipsy Kings' Savor Flamenco tied with Ladysmith Black Mambazo's Live: Singing For Peace Around The World for the best world music album award.
  • (8) Clearing the land and draining the body were two aspects of one and the same art of managing the transactions of all sorts of vital fluids, saps, juices, savors and humors.
  • (9) Testosterone will rise as the subject savors success.
  • (10) Possible interpretations include a hedonic explanation suggesting that sucking rate is modulated to facilitate savoring of the sweeter fluid.

Savory


Definition:

  • (a.) Pleasing to the organs of taste or smell.
  • (n.) An aromatic labiate plant (Satureia hortensis), much used in cooking; -- also called summer savory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first and third courses were interchanged and consisted of either a sweet (candy bar) or savory (cheese or crackers) food, both of similar palatabilities and energy densities.
  • (2) We found and inverse consumption relationship between savory "junk" foods and an intake of greens and root-crops (p = 0.03) and of pasta and rice (p = 0.008).
  • (3) Standing at the BBC bar my Head of Department, Gerald Savory, was also ordering a drink.
  • (4) "The hillside formed a tapestry of the blues and violets of flowering wild thyme," he recalled, "punctuated by bushes of wild rosemary, feathery shoots of wild fennel and the spring growth of oregano and winter savory – the poetry of Provence was in the air and tender tips of wild asparagus, invisible to the profane, were breaking the ground everywhere.
  • (5) Based on investigations of Piscator and of Savory et al., a modified Tsuchiya's reagent (ethanolic HCI-phosphotungstic acid) is used to precipitate proteins at 56 degrees C, followed by biuret spectrophotometry at 540 nm.
  • (6) Saliva has modulating effects on sour, salt, and the monosodium-glutamate-induced savory or umami taste.
  • (7) The consumers of sweet "junk" foods also ate significantly more savory "junk" food (p = 0.00009).
  • (8) Kimberley is making her fillings - chicken for some steamed Chinese buns and a bunch of other savory stuff that all sounds like something I'd eat a lot of at a party.
  • (9) The principal increase within the category of snack foods was in the intake of sweet solid items, e.g., candy bars, compared to sweet fluid, e.g., soda, or savory solid items, e.g., potato chips.
  • (10) When more savory food was provided, intake again remained fixed as exercise was increased, but subjects ate more throughout and maintained positive energy balance.
  • (11) However, more studies with different foods in a situation more similar to a normal meal are needed before it can be concluded that sweet and savory foods at the start or end of a meal always have the same effects on appetite and food intake.
  • (12) Beca's pudding is savory and features lamb, the juiciest of all the meats.
  • (13) While there, Trump made time for meetings with some of the world’s less savory leaders, but had no time for meeting with the members of civil society systematically repressed in the Middle East.
  • (14) The consumption of savory "junk" foods and meat products can replace nutrients of a high biological value which are found in greens and root-crops.