1. Saveur. Le goűt de la papaye verte.
2. Bon goűt. Un homme de goűt.
3. Penchant. Du goűt pour les arts.
4. Style. Dans le goűt Empire.
ETYM Old Eng. bite, bit, bitt, AS. bite bite, from bîtan to bite, akin to Icel. bit, OS. biti, German biss. Related to Bite, Bit.
(Homonym: bight, byte).
1. A light informal meal; SYN. collation, snack, nosh.
2. A wound resulting from biting.
3. The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws; SYN. chomp.
ETYM Old Fren. fleur, flaur (two syllables), odor, cf. French fleurer to emit an odor, Italian flatore a bad odor, prob. from Latin flare to bow, whence the sense of exhalation. Related to Blow.
(High energy physics) The kinds of quarks; SYN. flavour.
(Alternate spelling: flavour).
Alternate (chiefly British) spelling for flavor.
The name used for the different quarks types (up, down, strange, charm, bottom, top) and for the different lepton types (electron, muon, tau). For each charged lepton flavour there is a corresponding neutrino flavour. In other words, flavour is the quantum number that distinguishes the different quark/lepton types. Each flavour of quark and charged lepton has a different mass. For neutrinos we do not yet know if they have a mass or what the masses are.
ETYM Old Eng. savour, savor, savur, Old Fren. savor, savour, French saveur, from Latin sapor, from sapere to taste, savor. Related to Sage, Sapid, Insipid, Sapor.
(Homonym: saver).
Alternate (chiefly British) spelling for savor.
Sense that detects some of the chemical constituents of food. The human tongue can distinguish only four basic tastes (sweet, sour, bitter, and salty) but it is supplemented by the sense of smell. What we refer to as taste is really a composite sense made up of both taste and smell.
In art, the ability to judge the quality of a work of art. A person who consistently enjoys the tawdry and the second-rate is said to have “bad taste” whereas those who admire only the best display “good taste”. Since taste is nowadays regarded as essentially subjective, the term is useful only as a means of instigating critical debate.
1. The faculty of taste; SYN. gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality.
2. The sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
3. Distinguishing a taste by means of the taste buds; SYN. tasting.
4. Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); SYN. appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness.
5. A small amount eaten or drunk; SYN. mouthful.
6. A brief experience of something