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tasting
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, wolfingROGET 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.For further exploring for "tasting" in Webster Dictionary Online