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pretaste

pretaste noun: a taste taken beforehand.

Noun

pretaste (plural pretastes)

  1. A taste taken beforehand.
    • […] sodium chloride was discriminated significantly better after a pretaste of distilled water, hot bouillon, hot coffee (1% level), or tomato juice (5% level), than after milk, apple juice, or raw apple.2013, Maynard A. Amerine, Rose Marie Pangborn, Edward B. Roessler, Principles of Sensory Evaluation of Food, page 308

Verb

pretaste (third-person singular simple present pretastes, present participle pretasting, simple past and past participle pretasted)

  1. To take a previous or initial taste.

Forms of pretaste

Noun
pluralpretastes
Verb
third-person singular presentpretastes
present participlepretasting
past participlepretasted
pastpretasted

Origin of pretaste

From pre- + taste.

Questions about pretaste

What does pretaste mean?
Pretaste means a taste taken beforehand.
What part of speech is pretaste?
Pretaste can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of pretaste?
The plural of pretaste is pretastes.

Words near pretaste in the dictionary

  1. pretarsi
  2. pretarsus
  3. pretas
  4. pretask
  5. pretassel
  6. pretaste
  7. pretasted
  8. pretastes
  9. pretasting
  10. pretax
  11. pretaxation

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