tasting
/ˈteɪstɪŋ/
tasting noun: a small amount of food or drink. Also the present participle and gerund of taste.
Noun
tasting (plural tastings)
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
More languagesFewer languages
- 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.
Synonyms of tasting
Forms of tasting
| plural | tastings |
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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
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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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