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tasting

/ˈteɪstɪŋ/

tasting noun: a small amount of food or drink. Also the present participle and gerund of taste.

Noun

tasting (plural tastings)

  1. A small amount of food or drink.
  2. The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it.
    Synonyms:
    gustation

Also used as

tasting is also the present participle and gerund of taste.

tasting meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Bengali and Arabic

tasting in Marathi

चव घेणारी

tasting in Urdu

چکھنا

tasting in Bengali

স্বাদ পাওয়া

tasting in Arabic

taking of a small amount of food or drink in order to taste it
مَذَاق maḏāq
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tasting in Vietnamese
việc nếm thử

Examples of tasting in a sentence

  • The buttery-tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.
  • When tasting, Forsyth also recommends following with a bite of a paczek.
  • He suspected something was different with his tingkat (tiffin carrier) meal one week, after tasting the dishes.

All 40 example sentences with tasting

Synonyms of tasting

Forms of tasting

pluraltastings

Plural of tasting: tastings

Origin of tasting

From Middle English tastynge, taastyng, equivalent to taste + -ing (gerundive ending).

From Middle English tastinge, taastynge, equivalent to taste + -ing (present participle ending).

Words formed from tasting

Phrases with tasting

Words that rhyme with tasting

Questions about tasting

What does tasting mean?
Tasting means a small amount of food or drink.
What is tasting in Marathi?
Tasting in Marathi is चव घेणारी. See Tasting meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is tasting?
Tasting is a noun.
How do you pronounce tasting?
Tasting is pronounced /ˈteɪstɪŋ/.
What is the plural of tasting?
The plural of tasting is tastings.

Words near tasting in the dictionary

  1. tasties
  2. tastiest
  3. tastily
  4. tastiness
  5. tastinesses
  6. tasting
  7. tasting blood
  8. tasting menu
  9. tasting menus
  10. tasting note
  11. tasting notes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tasting (page history and authors); tasting (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tasting (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tasting (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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