Synonyms:
tasting, savoring, savouring, relishing, degustation
Meaning: taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most"
Synonyms:
taste, tasting
Meaning: a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds; "a wine tasting"
Synonyms:
tasting
Meaning: a small amount (especially of food or wine)
Usage examples
"Ah! that's the '20," said the squire, tasting it.
The food was of different kinds--some tasting like goose, others like turkey, others like partridge.
It's such dreadful tasting stuff--but it's a good blood purifier, so Aunt Janet can't object to it."
He had perceived that in the pauses of weighing and tasting, Dick talked; if he were guided with suitable discretion, why should he not talk of Wellgood?
When she had flown off, he stretched his wings, whirred them as if for practice, and then moved his bill as if still tasting the dainty he had had for supper.
If we could only get the lad to go for the fruit, he wouldn't be able to keep from tasting the apples, and as soon as ever he fell asleep my brothers would tear him in pieces.'
He gathered up every bit with the utmost care; he could not help tasting the very smallest, and that was so good he had to taste another, and, before he knew it himself, he had eaten up the whole cake.