(a.) Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful drapery.
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.
Tasteless
Definition:
(a.) Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.
(a.) Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age.
(a.) Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this paper, the sweetness receptor is refined with use of the shapes of 3-anilino-2-styryl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (sweet) and of 3-anilino-2-phenyl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (tasteless), two large and almost completely rigid tastants.
(2) Not all the jokes land, and some of the tastelessness may inspire groans.
(3) Birds, such as quail and chickens, that eat relatively tasteless food rely more on color than on flavor cues when forming learned food aversions.
(4) Tasteless imagery like this is the play's currency; it forces us, according to its co-director, Ultz, "to go to some dirty, ugly places.
(5) The website shows the rooms are dingy and tasteless: turquoise carpets, small windows, chintz bedspreads.
(6) It’s easy to miss something that’s invisible, silent, odourless and tasteless.
(7) It is important to note that this series of tripeptides (analogous to the previously reported dipeptides) goes from sweet to bitter to tasteless as the ring size of the C-terminal amino acid increases.
(8) The St Louis Police Officers Association claimed that officers found the actions of Tavon Austin, Stedman Bailey, Kenny Britt, Jared Cook, Chris Givens and Tre Mason to be “tasteless, offensive and inflammatory”, and demanded that they be disciplined.
(9) The efficacy of a virtually tasteless glucose polymer in testing carbohydrate tolerance in pregnancy was determined.
(10) Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colourless, odourless, tasteless and non-irritating gas and may therefore be inhaled in large quantities by the victim without his realizing it.
(11) It would be imprudent to discuss them with rivals, and tasteless to admit their existence in polite company.
(12) The subjects were not informed about the composition of the NPM, which they rated as tasteless and unappetizing.
(13) A hairless mons pubis simply does not accessorise well with one's kale, cucumber and pear juice, you see, and kale juice is just so terribly, terribly NOW, you know, what with it being tasteless, sugar-free and overpriced.
(14) Her address ranged from the hilarious to the edgy, leading to days of controversy, but sparked by the tasteless digs she made at right-wing pundit Rush Limbaugh, not the fact that she is a lesbian or black.
(15) Island Records have not decided anything yet concerning any kind of recorded memorial (for example a “Best of” which could utilize the four recently recorded tracks) and, sure, it might be cited as a tasteless gesture – but Nick Drake’s music should be heard by more people.
(16) The oral solution was tasteless and had no, or minimal, side effects.
(17) The room is crammed with memorabilia – a programme from 1967 when QPR won the League Cup and a picture of footballing hero Rodney Marsh, any number of Beatles trinkets (mainly from the Revolver album), a ferocious metal bell presented by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, a Margaret Thatcher nut cracker ("It strikes me as pretty tasteless.
(18) There's a bit on the pulpy flamboyance of Italy's giallo thrillers, a segment on Argento's peerlessly tasteless memorabilia shop ("Is that a torso?")
(19) It’s a gelatinous texture that we are not used to,” admits Gonzalez, adding that while the membrane is tasteless some people who have tested it preferred not to eat it.
(20) Barber said the T-shirts were "tasteless and totally inappropriate".