Smack vs. Taste — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Smack and Taste
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Smack
A sharp slap or blow, typically one given with the palm of the hand
She gave Mark a smack across the face
Taste
The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste (flavor). Taste is the perception produced or stimulated when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on the tongue.
Smack
A flavour or taste of
Anything with even a modest smack of hops dries the palate
Taste
The sensation of flavour perceived in the mouth and throat on contact with a substance
The wine had a fruity taste
Smack
A single-masted sailing boat used for coasting or fishing
The village still harbours a few fishing smacks
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Taste
A person's liking for particular flavours
This pudding is too sweet for my taste
Smack
Heroin
I was out scoring smack
Taste
The ability to discern what is of good quality or of a high aesthetic standard
She has frightful taste in literature
Smack
Strike (someone or something), typically with the palm of the hand and as a punishment
Jessica smacked his face, quite hard
Taste
Perceive or experience the flavour of
She had never tasted ice cream before
Smack
Part (one's lips) noisily in eager anticipation or enjoyment of food or drink
Morgan drank half the Scotch and smacked his lips
Taste
Have experience of
The team has not yet tasted victory at home
Smack
Crack (a whip)
The four postilions smacked their whips in concert
Taste
To distinguish the flavor of by taking into the mouth.
Smack
Have a flavour of; taste of
The tea smacked strongly of tannin
Taste
To eat or drink a small quantity of.
Smack
In a sudden and violent way
I ran smack into the back of a parked truck
Taste
To partake of, especially for the first time; experience
Prisoners finally tasting freedom.
Smack
Exactly; precisely
Our mother's house was smack in the middle of the city
Taste
(Archaic) To appreciate or enjoy.
Smack
To press together and open (the lips) quickly and noisily, as in eating or tasting.
Taste
To distinguish flavors in the mouth.
Smack
To kiss noisily.
Taste
To have a distinct flavor
The stew tastes salty.
Smack
To strike sharply and with a loud noise.
Taste
To eat or drink a small amount.
Smack
To make or give a smack.
Taste
To have experience or enjoyment; partake
Tasted of the life of the very rich.
Smack
To collide sharply and noisily
The ball smacked against the side of the house.
Taste
The sense that distinguishes the sweet, sour, salty, and bitter qualities of dissolved substances in contact with the taste buds on the tongue.
Smack
To have a distinctive flavor or taste. Used with of.
Taste
This sense in combination with the senses of smell and touch, which together receive a sensation of a substance in the mouth.
Smack
To give an indication; be suggestive. Often used with of
"an agenda that does not smack of compromise" (Time).
Taste
The sensation of sweet, sour, salty, or bitter qualities produced by a substance placed in the mouth.
Smack
The loud sharp sound of smacking.
Taste
The unified sensation produced by any of these qualities plus a distinct smell and texture; flavor.
Smack
A noisy kiss.
Taste
A distinctive perception as if by the sense of taste
An experience that left a bad taste in my mouth.
Smack
A sharp blow or slap.
Taste
The act of tasting.
Smack
A distinctive flavor or taste.
Taste
A small quantity eaten or tasted.
Smack
A suggestion or trace.
Taste
A limited or first experience; a sample
"Thousands entered the war, got just a taste of it, and then stepped out" (Mark Twain).
Smack
A small amount; a smattering.
Taste
A personal preference or liking
A taste for adventure.
A play that was not to my taste.
Smack
A fishing boat sailing under various rigs, according to size, and often having a well used to transport the catch to market.
Taste
The ability to recognize and appreciate what is beautiful, excellent, or appropriate
Has good taste in clothes.
Smack
Heroin.
Taste
The sense of what is proper, seemly, or least likely to give offense in a given social situation
A remark made in bad taste.
Smack
With a smack
Fell smack on her head.
Taste
(Obsolete) The act of testing; trial.
Smack
Directly
"We were smack in the middle of another controversy about a public man's personal life" (Ellen Goodman).
Taste
One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
He had a strange taste in his mouth.
Venison has a strong taste.
Smack
A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
Rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon
Taste
The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
His taste was impaired by an illness.
Smack
A slight trace of something; a smattering.
Taste
A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
Smack
Heroin.
Taste
A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
Smack
(Northern England) A form of fried potato; a scallop.
Taste
Personal preference; liking; predilection.
I have developed a taste for fine wine.
Smack
A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
Taste
A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward.
Smack
A group of jellyfish.
Taste
A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
Smack
A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
Taste
(transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
Smack
The sound of a loud kiss.
Taste
To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.
Smack
A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
Taste
(transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.
Smack
(transitive) To get the flavor of.
Taste
To experience.
I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
Smack
(intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
Taste
To take sparingly.
Smack
(intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.
Taste
To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
Smack
To slap or hit someone.
Taste
(obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.
Smack
To make a smacking sound.
Taste
To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.
Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find.
Smack
(especially outside of North America) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
Taste
To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine.
When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse.
Smack
To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
Taste
To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
I tasted a little of this honey.
Smack
To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
Taste
To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.
He . . . should taste death for every man.
Smack
As if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply.
Right smack bang in the middle.
Taste
To partake of; to participate in; - usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.
Thou . . . wilt tasteNo pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.
Smack
A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
Taste
To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine.
Smack
Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.
So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness.
They felt the smack of this world.
Taste
To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic.
Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reasonShall to the king taste of this action.
Smack
A small quantity; a taste.
Taste
To take sparingly.
For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
Smack
A loud kiss; a buss.
Taste
To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Smack
A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
Taste
The act of tasting; gustation.
Smack
A quick, smart blow; a slap.
Taste
A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste.
Smack
A slang term for heroin.
Taste
The one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.
Smack
As if with a smack or slap.
Taste
Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; - formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.
I have no tasteOf popular applause.
Smack
To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
Taste
The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.
Smack
To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.
All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.
Taste
Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste.
Smack
To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
Taste
Essay; trial; experience; experiment.
Smack
To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.
Taste
A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tasted or eaten; a bit.
Smack
To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
Taste
A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
What, then, is taste, but those internal powers,Active and strong, and feelingly aliveTo each fine impulse? a discerning senseOf decent and sublime, with quick disgustFrom things deformed, or disarranged, or grossIn species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold,Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow,But God alone, when first his active handImprints the secret bias of the soul.
Smack
To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting.
Drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish.
Taste
The sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus;
The candy left him with a bad taste
The melon had a delicious taste
Smack
To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip.
Taste
A strong liking;
My own preference is for good literature
The Irish have a penchant for blarney
Smack
A blow from a flat object (as an open hand)
Taste
Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values);
Arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success
To ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste
Smack
The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
Taste
A brief experience of something;
He got a taste of life on the wild side
She enjoyed her brief taste of independence
Smack
A sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast
Taste
A small amount eaten or drunk;
Take a taste--you'll like it
Smack
Street names for heroin
Taste
The faculty of taste;
His cold deprived him of his sense of taste
Smack
An enthusiastic kiss
Taste
A kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds;
A wine tasting
Smack
The act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand
Taste
Have flavor; taste of something
Smack
Deliver a hard blow to;
The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved
Taste
Take a sample of;
Try these new crackers
Sample the regional dishes
Smack
Have an element suggestive (of something);
His speeches smacked of racism
Taste
Perceive by the sense of taste;
Can you taste the garlic?
Smack
Have a distinctive or characteristic taste;
This tastes of nutmeg
Taste
Have a distinctive or characteristic taste;
This tastes of nutmeg
Smack
Kiss lightly
Taste
Distinguish flavors;
We tasted wines last night
Smack
Eat noisily by smacking one's lips
Taste
Experience briefly;
The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died
Smack
Directly;
He ran bang into the pole
Ran slap into her
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