(n.) One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.
(n.) That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
(n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.
Example Sentences:
(1) For instance, it is hard to get colleagues to contribute to “survey courses” – taster programmes that briefly cover the main topics of a discipline.
(2) The harsh labour market experience of the young over recent years is a mere taster of what's in store.
(3) I decided to develop a 50-minute debut Fringe show and performed previews in London to test the show out and began promoting it.” By giving herself a taster of the Edinburgh experience before jumping in with both feet, Collins prepared herself for what was ahead.
(4) Among the tasters will be the Chicago-based author of Taste of Tomorrow, Josh Schonwald, and an Austrian food trends researcher, Hanni Rützler of the Future Food Studio.
(5) At one point, dissatisfied with their taste – she is an enthusiastic rather than a merely dutiful taster – she tipped seven plated servings of scallops back in a basin and began seasoning them all over again.
(6) Tasters selected milk earlier than did nontasters, suggesting that they like it more.
(7) Sensitive non-tasters demonstrated a distribution of reaction times that was similar to that observed with tasters.
(8) These results are regarded as a probable confirmation of the Indian origin of the Gipsies, as the percentage of non-tasters in the majority of the different Indian tribes is higher than that of the European populations.
(9) Now it provides a poignant taster of a major new British Museum touring exhibition that opens in Bristol on 21 September.
(10) The diminished intensity perception for sweet and bitter taste was much more prominent in non-tasters than tasters hypothyroids.
(11) Significantly more subjects who reported a mother debilitated by depression were PTC tasters (p less than .05).
(12) But they were tasters of what the no campaign thought the electorate deserved, ie not much.
(13) The impact of a rare “ice tsunami” in 2013 on the Canadian municipality of Ochre Beach was just a taster: a wall of melting iceberg on Dauphin Lake was blown by winds on to the shore, splintering every house in its path.
(14) In all the groups the frequency of 'tasters' exceeded that of 'nontasters.'
(15) Sixty percent of subjects of hyperthyroid and 40% of hypothyroid subjects were tasters.
(16) Between overall quality and the contents of total pigments, total anthocyanins, coloured anthocyanins and the tasters' mean colour scores; b. Flavour and the contents of total pigments and total anthocyanins.
(17) The present study examined differences in gustatory processing for tasters and non-tasters of phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) by assessing intensity judgment reaction times in these two groups.
(18) The SWR and CFW mice are both derived from Swiss mice, and the results were consistent with the possibility that the Taster animals share an allele which is identical by descent.
(19) We’ll give you some symbolic tasters – cutting winter fuel payments to wealthy pensioners, for example – but no hideous-sounding, cute-puppy-strangling, gruesome sacrifices that would really frighten people.
(20) Here's a taster: "Soccer" has weathered a long, dusty path for mainstream acceptance but the class of 2006 garnered idol status for Cahill, Kewell and co.
Waster
Definition:
(v. t.) One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
(v. t.) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief.
(v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cognitive studies of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) patients have revealed (1) the presence of an IQ advantage in patients, siblings and parents due to socioeconomic status, genetic, hormonal, or other factors; (2) an IQ disadvantage in salt wasters compared with simple virilizers, probably due to early brain damage secondary to salt-wasting crisis; (3) a possibly increased incidence of learning disabilities, particularly in female patients and particularly for calculation abilities, due to disease-related early androgen exposure; and (4) a possible post-pubertal spatial advantage in CAH women, also due to early androgen exposure.
(2) Simple virilizers are more likely to be learning disabled than salt-wasters (P = .04, one-tailed).
(3) A number of methods of fluoride supplementation are being discussed in this paper and compared to drinking waster fluoridation.
(4) "The boy was tweeting before the game that he's a super time-waster.
(5) The drug, therefore, has been used to facilitate renal waster excretion when severe hyponatremia occurs in the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion.
(6) His then-girlfriend, film critic and author Antonia Quirke, wrote a memoir, Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers, in which he appears as a romantic waster, who will definitely not amount to anything, the enormity of this novel notwithstanding.
(7) Photograph: Noah Smith for the Guardian He operates alone but is part of a small, vocal community which uses social media to identify and excoriate alleged water wasters under the hashtags #droughtshaming and #droughtshame .
(8) All these wasters... was that last minute directed by Richard Linklater?
(9) Presumably, this is because some salt-waster patients suffer brain injury from episodes of hypotension and hyponatremia.
(10) How should time-wasters and persistent no-shows be treated – should they just be summarily excluded from accessing services?
(11) The jury at Bristol crown court was told he believed Ebrahimi was a time-waster and serial complainer and let his antipathy towards him affect the way he dealt with his case.
(12) Where are all the undeserving poor , the ones he gleefully holds up as proof that the welfare system is a soft touch for feckless wasters?
(13) The water wasters of Los Angeles are not easily intimidated, it seems.
(14) However, salt-waster patients have a lower IQ (104 vs 117) than simple virilizer patients (P = .005, one-tailed).
(15) Vampire series True Blood was another time-waster – I only gave up when the fairy ring codswallop started up (don’t ask).
(16) Because of this confounding effect on IQ in the salt-waster form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia, the simple virilizer female versus unaffected female siblings reprsents the best test of the hypothesis.
(17) He was actually claiming to be best time waster in the world on Twitter yesterday!
(18) • Our jury prize went to the Russian director Andrei Zvagintsev for his terrific, and intriguingly Chabrol-ish drama Elena, about a woman with a grown-up, deadbeat waster of a son; she is a nurse who is now re-married to the wealthy man whom she nursed back to health.
(19) There have been other great characters, of course – Paul Calf, the Mancunian waster, Tommy Saxondale and Tony Ferrino among them, but few have rivalled Partridge, the gaffe-prone Norfolk chatshow and radio host with catchphrases galore.