¹ taste noun

• the sweet, sour, bitter, or salty quality of a thing that you can sense when it is in your mouth : the flavor that you can taste when you eat or drink something —sometimes used figuratively
• the ability to notice or recognize flavors when you eat or drink : the ability to taste things
• a small amount of food or drink that you have in order to see how it tastes—usually singular

² taste verb

• to have a particular taste —sometimes + of
• to sense the flavor of (something that you are eating or drinking)
• to put a small amount of (food or drink) in your mouth in order to find out what its flavor is