delicacy vs taste

delicacy

noun
  • The quality of being delicate. 

  • Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement. 

  • Refinement in taste or discrimination. 

  • Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance. 

  • Tact and propriety; the need for such tact. 

  • Frailty of health or fitness. 

taste

noun
  • A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole. 

  • The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation. 

  • A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc. 

  • A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs. 

  • One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation. 

  • Personal preference; liking; predilection. 

  • A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon. 

verb
  • To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of. 

  • To sample the flavor of something orally. 

  • To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally. 

  • To experience. 

  • To take sparingly. 

  • To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished. 

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