relish vs taste

relish

verb
  • To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of 

  • To take great pleasure in. 

  • To give a taste to; to cause to taste nice, to make appetizing. 

noun
  • A pleasant taste. 

  • Enjoyment; pleasure. 

  • A quality or characteristic tinge. 

  • A taste (for); liking (of); fondness. 

  • A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment. 

  • In a wooden frame, the projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece. 

  • Something that is greatly liked or savoured. 

taste

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

  • 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. 

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

  • A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon. 

How often have the words relish and taste occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )