tasting

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: tast=ing
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

tasting, n. 

 The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tasting, n. a gathering at which food or drink (esp. wine) is tasted and evaluated.

THESAURUS

tasting

appetite, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chewing, compotation, consumption, cropping, deglutition, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, drinking, drunkenness, eating, epulation, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, grazing, gulping, gustation, guzzling, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hunger, imbibing, imbibition, ingestion, lapping, licking, manducation, mastication, messing, munching, nibbling, nipping, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, potation, pulling, quaffing, regalement, relishing, rumination, savoring, slipping, swigging, swilling, symposium, vegetarianism, wolfing

ROGET THESAURUS

tasting

Taste

N taste, good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste, delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse, nicety, to prepon, polish, elegance, grace, judgment, discernment, dilettantism, dilettanteism, virtu, fine art, culture, cultivation, aesthetics, man of taste, connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist, caviare to the general, in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty, unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic, cultivated, refined, dainty, esthetic, aesthetic, artistic, elegant, euphemistic, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy, comme il faut, tire a quatre epingles, elegantly, nihil tetigit quod non ornavit, chacun a son gout, oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus, taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor, gout, relish, sapor, sapidity, twang, smack, smatch, aftertaste, tang, tasting, degustation, gustation, palate, tongue, tooth, stomach, sapid, saporific, gustable, gustatory, gustful, strong, gamy, palatable.