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Smack and Taste Definitions

Smack

To press together and open (the lips) quickly and noisily, as in eating or tasting.

Taste

To distinguish the flavor of by taking into the mouth.

Smack

To kiss noisily.

Taste

To eat or drink a small quantity of.

Smack

To strike sharply and with a loud noise.
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Taste

To partake of, especially for the first time; experience
Prisoners finally tasting freedom.

Smack

To make or give a smack.

Taste

(Archaic) To appreciate or enjoy.

Smack

To collide sharply and noisily
The ball smacked against the side of the house.

Taste

To distinguish flavors in the mouth.
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Smack

To have a distinctive flavor or taste. Used with of.

Taste

To have a distinct flavor
The stew tastes salty.

Smack

To give an indication; be suggestive. Often used with of
"an agenda that does not smack of compromise" (Time).

Taste

To eat or drink a small amount.

Smack

The loud sharp sound of smacking.

Taste

To have experience or enjoyment; partake
Tasted of the life of the very rich.

Smack

A noisy kiss.

Taste

The sense that distinguishes the sweet, sour, salty, and bitter qualities of dissolved substances in contact with the taste buds on the tongue.

Smack

A sharp blow or slap.

Taste

This sense in combination with the senses of smell and touch, which together receive a sensation of a substance in the mouth.

Smack

A distinctive flavor or taste.

Taste

The sensation of sweet, sour, salty, or bitter qualities produced by a substance placed in the mouth.

Smack

A suggestion or trace.

Taste

The unified sensation produced by any of these qualities plus a distinct smell and texture; flavor.

Smack

A small amount; a smattering.

Taste

A distinctive perception as if by the sense of taste
An experience that left a bad taste in my mouth.

Smack

A fishing boat sailing under various rigs, according to size, and often having a well used to transport the catch to market.

Taste

The act of tasting.

Smack

Heroin.

Taste

A small quantity eaten or tasted.

Smack

With a smack
Fell smack on her head.

Taste

A limited or first experience; a sample
"Thousands entered the war, got just a taste of it, and then stepped out" (Mark Twain).

Smack

Directly
"We were smack in the middle of another controversy about a public man's personal life" (Ellen Goodman).

Taste

A personal preference or liking
A taste for adventure.
A play that was not to my taste.

Smack

A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
Rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon

Taste

The ability to recognize and appreciate what is beautiful, excellent, or appropriate
Has good taste in clothes.

Smack

A slight trace of something; a smattering.

Taste

The sense of what is proper, seemly, or least likely to give offense in a given social situation
A remark made in bad taste.

Smack

Heroin.

Taste

(Obsolete) The act of testing; trial.

Smack

(Northern England) A form of fried potato; a scallop.

Taste

One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
He had a strange taste in his mouth.
Venison has a strong taste.

Smack

A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack

Taste

The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
His taste was impaired by an illness.

Smack

A group of jellyfish.

Taste

A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.

Smack

A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.

Taste

A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.

Smack

The sound of a loud kiss.

Taste

Personal preference; liking; predilection.
I have developed a taste for fine wine.

Smack

A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.

Taste

A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward.

Smack

(transitive) To get the flavor of.

Taste

A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

Smack

(intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.

Taste

(transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.

Smack

(intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.

Taste

To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.

Smack

To slap or hit someone.

Taste

(transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.

Smack

To make a smacking sound.

Taste

To experience.
I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Smack

(especially outside of North America) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)

Taste

To take sparingly.

Smack

To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.

Taste

To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.

Smack

To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.

Taste

(obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

Smack

As if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply.
Right smack bang in the middle.

Taste

To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.
Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find.

Smack

A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

Taste

To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine.
When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse.

Smack

Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.
So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness.
They felt the smack of this world.

Taste

To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
I tasted a little of this honey.

Smack

A small quantity; a taste.

Taste

To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.
He . . . should taste death for every man.

Smack

A loud kiss; a buss.

Taste

To partake of; to participate in; - usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.
Thou . . . wilt tasteNo pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.

Smack

A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.

Taste

To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine.

Smack

A quick, smart blow; a slap.

Taste

To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic.
Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reasonShall to the king taste of this action.

Smack

A slang term for heroin.

Taste

To take sparingly.
For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.

Smack

As if with a smack or slap.

Taste

To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty.
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Smack

To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.

Taste

The act of tasting; gustation.

Smack

To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.
All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.

Taste

A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste.

Smack

To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.

Taste

The one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.

Smack

To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.

Taste

Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; - formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.
I have no tasteOf popular applause.

Smack

To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.

Taste

The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.

Smack

To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting.
Drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish.

Taste

Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste.

Smack

To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip.

Taste

Essay; trial; experience; experiment.

Smack

A blow from a flat object (as an open hand)

Taste

A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tasted or eaten; a bit.

Smack

The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

Taste

A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
What, then, is taste, but those internal powers,Active and strong, and feelingly aliveTo each fine impulse? a discerning senseOf decent and sublime, with quick disgustFrom things deformed, or disarranged, or grossIn species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold,Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow,But God alone, when first his active handImprints the secret bias of the soul.

Smack

A sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast

Taste

The sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus;
The candy left him with a bad taste
The melon had a delicious taste

Smack

Street names for heroin

Taste

A strong liking;
My own preference is for good literature
The Irish have a penchant for blarney

Smack

An enthusiastic kiss

Taste

Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values);
Arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success
To ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste

Smack

The act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand

Taste

A brief experience of something;
He got a taste of life on the wild side
She enjoyed her brief taste of independence

Smack

Deliver a hard blow to;
The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved

Taste

A small amount eaten or drunk;
Take a taste--you'll like it

Smack

Have an element suggestive (of something);
His speeches smacked of racism

Taste

The faculty of taste;
His cold deprived him of his sense of taste

Smack

Have a distinctive or characteristic taste;
This tastes of nutmeg

Taste

A kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds;
A wine tasting

Smack

Kiss lightly

Taste

Have flavor; taste of something

Smack

Eat noisily by smacking one's lips

Taste

Take a sample of;
Try these new crackers
Sample the regional dishes

Smack

Directly;
He ran bang into the pole
Ran slap into her

Taste

Perceive by the sense of taste;
Can you taste the garlic?

Taste

Have a distinctive or characteristic taste;
This tastes of nutmeg

Taste

Distinguish flavors;
We tasted wines last night

Taste

Experience briefly;
The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died

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