(superl.) Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5.
(n.) Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
Example Sentences:
(1) Internet search advertising is set to remain buoyant, with a tasty 25% growth rate.
(2) If you buy your tarragon from a garden centre, beware of that rather bitter, dragonish impostor, A. dracunculoides, or Russian tarragon, which is a much less refined and tasty thing.
(3) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
(4) read one banner, against the woman whose family is reviled for taking tasty slices of state business and contracts, and plundering Tunisia's wealth.
(5) My roast beef sandwich with crispy onions and celeriac was tasty, although the decision to serve it on a slight sweet buttermilk roll is a curious one.
(6) We don't know too many cardinals, but we know what she means: this is gloriously tasty food, to be cooked for those you really love.
(7) Naive boy from the country moves to the big city and things go wrong.” We are drinking herbal tea and eating (very tasty) vegetables in Moby’s newly opened vegan restaurant in blue-skied Los Angeles.
(8) I make ful cobi with my cookery students: carrot, peas, cauliflower and sweetcorn, gently stir-fried with mustard seeds, ginger, garlic and green chillies, and they're amazed how tasty it is.
(9) Slovakia, not starring revelation Vladimir Weiss Jnr., or indeed Sestak, but at least tasty former Chelsea winger Miroslav Stoch comes in: Mucha, Pekarik, Skrtel, Durica, Zabavnik, Hamsik, Strba, Kucka, Stoch, Vittek, Jendrisek.
(10) Annie's soda bread Photograph: Pai9arhonalcna for the Guardian Easy peasy and very tasty.
(11) After another two kilometres down the boulevard is the Something Good roadhouse for a tasty burger and shake to-go.
(12) In its review , the Economis t came up with a useful everyday analogy: high-frequency traders are like "the people who offer you tasty titbits as you enter the supermarket to entice you to buy; but in this case, as you show appreciation for the goods, they race through the aisles to mark the price up before you can get your trolley to the chosen counter".
(13) Another new spot, Victor (11 rue Victor Massé), offers a good deal for lunch, with a tasty €12 plat du jour that includes dishes such as tender veal sautéed with baby leeks and hazelnuts, and crisp rocket salad and roasted new potatoes.
(14) The ASP drink is not only effective but also fragrant, tasty, refreshing and thirst quenching, and it appears to have no side effects.
(15) Tasty fruits and vegetables were given to patients to eat before major meals for better nutrient adherence and adequacy.
(16) If I'm out, I can guarantee she will not have left me anything nutritious and tasty in the oven.
(17) Lukaku was denied a second by Allsop after Seamus Coleman delivered a tasty cross from the right but Bournemouth’s pressure continued to build, their belief never wavering.
(18) The difference was especially marked for the categories "synthetic - natural", "unpleasant - very tasty", and "changeable - stable in times".
(19) The women evaluated margarine less "tasty" but "lighter", and "healthier" than butter.
(20) There’s tasty tapas too – olives marinated with oranges and lemons, cheese with homemade marmalade and salchichón salami, great paired with local Moscatel wine.
Test
Definition:
(n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
(n.) Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
(n.) Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
(n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
(n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
(n.) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
(n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
(v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
(v. t.) To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
(v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
(n.) A witness.
(v. i.) To make a testament, or will.
(n.) Alt. of Testa
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
(2) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(3) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(4) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(5) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(6) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(7) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
(8) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(9) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
(10) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
(11) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(12) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
(13) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
(14) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(15) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(16) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
(17) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(18) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(19) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(20) Immunocompetence was also evident when the cells from thymectomized donors were first incubated with thymus extract for 1 hr and subsequently tested for reactivity.