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noun (countable) and (uncountable)
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals often confused and/or mixed somewhat with smelling. The primary sensations classified as taste are: sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami.
- (countable) and (uncountable): A person"s generic, implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- Dr. Parker has good in wine.
- (uncountable): a metaphorical usage to describe having a small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- w:Voltaire, Voltaire is quoted to have said "I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise".
w:Livy, Livy is quoted to have said "they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom"
verb (tast, ing)
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- (intransitive) To have a .
- The chicken tasted great.
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noun
- A hole or break caused by tearing.
- A small is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.
verb (tears, tearing, tore, torn)
- (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
- He tore his coat on the nail.
- (transitive) (followed by off or out) To remove by tearing.
- Tear the coupon out of the newspaper.
- (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
- My dress has torn.
- (intransitive) To move at excessive speed.
- He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
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noun
- a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting
- a tendency to become irritable or angry
- (music) the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key
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noun - (biology) The maintenance of a constant internal temperature of an organism independent of the temperature of the environment
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noun
- type of electrical activity in the brain, brain waves with a frequency 4-8 hertz.
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noun
- type of electrical activity in the brain, brain waves with a frequency 4-8 hertz.
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noun
- A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.
- Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; " usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.
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adjective (thirstier, thirstiest)
- Needing to drink
- A physical demand for satiation of basic needs
- After all that work I am really
- Crave, craving for something
- A deeply felt need for psychological attainment
- I am for knowledge.
- After that horrible president left office, the nation was for change.
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noun
- A beating, vibration or palpitation
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