Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that tastes, especially one who samples a food or beverage for quality.
- noun Any of several devices or implements used in tasting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who tastes.
- noun One skilled in distinguishing the qualities of liquors, tea, etc., by the taste.
- noun An implement by which a small sample of anything to be tasted is manipulated.
- noun A gimlet-shaped tool by which a small piece of cheese can be drawn from the center of the mass.
- noun A hydrocyst of some polyps.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.
- noun That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See
Siphonophora .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That in which, or by which, anything is
tasted , as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like. - noun One who
tastes anything, especially food, wine etc., forquality . - noun zoology A kind of
zooid situated on thepolyp -stem of certainSiphonophora , resembling thefeeding zooids, butdestitute ofmouths .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who samples food or drink for its quality
Etymologies
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Examples
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Here we apply the term taster, or wine-taster, to a small, shallow silver cup with bosses in the bottom to reflect the light and show the color and quality of wine.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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If the user ultimately tried to register one, the domain taster could offer to part with the one they'd registered at an inflated price; if nothing happened in a few days, the name was returned.
Boing Boing 2009
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I just realised I forgot to post up a link to the Del Rey Online sub-site for VELLUM, where they have a wee taster from the first chapter and an interview with meself wherein I, well, talk about stuff. posted by Hal Duncan | 6: 21 PM
Archive 2006-05-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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I just realised I forgot to post up a link to the Del Rey Online sub-site for VELLUM, where they have a wee taster from the first chapter and an interview with meself wherein I, well, talk about stuff. posted by Hal Duncan | 6: 21 PM
In the Spirit of Shameless Self-Promotion Hal Duncan 2006
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Scientists from NEC’s System Technologies laboratory and Mie University say the idea behind the robotic wine taster is to automate wine analysis so that retailers and custom officials can easily check that the wine in the bottle is the same as declared by the label.
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Yet me and this other taster might be able to agree on dry and sweet in a categorical sense, and probably each place a group of bottles in one category or the other with only a few outliers.
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However, there is also a variety of data in the release, which comScore have provided as a taster, which is worth examining.
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However, there is also a variety of data in the release, which comScore have provided as a taster, which is worth examining.
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However, there is also a variety of data in the release, which comScore have provided as a taster, which is worth examining.
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However, there is also a variety of data in the release, which comScore have provided as a taster, which is worth examining.
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