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taste
Noun
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Taste is the sense linked to the tongue, usually when eating food. The taste is how people can enjoy their food.
The main tastes are sweet, sour, salty and bitter.
Wow, these chicken wings taste really good, I want some more!.
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Someone's taste, is the kind of food, books, clothing, etc. that they like.
She has great taste in clothes, but I don't understand her taste in men.
taste
Verb
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The way something tastes is the sense you get when you put it in your mouth.
This milk tastes strange. I think it's bad.
This meat tastes like chicken. What is it?
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If you taste something, you put it in your mouth to see if you like it.
Here, taste this soup and tell me if it needs more salt.
bud
Noun
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A bud is a small part of a plant which opens up and becomes a leaf or a flower.
It's spring! The buds on the trees are opening!
bud
Verb
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To grow buds.
The trees are finally starting to bud.
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To reproduce by splitting off buds.
Yeast reproduces by budding.