The difference between Bitter and Taste

When used as nouns, bitter means a liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic, whereas taste means one of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals.

When used as verbs, bitter means to make bitter, whereas taste means to sample the flavor of something orally.

Bitter is also adjective with the meaning: having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).

check bellow for the other definitions of Bitter and Taste

  1. Bitter as an adjective:

    Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).

    Examples:

    "The coffee tasted bitter."

  2. Bitter as an adjective:

    Harsh, piercing or stinging.

  3. Bitter as an adjective:

    Hateful or hostile.

    Examples:

    "They're bitter enemies."

  4. Bitter as an adjective:

    Cynical and resentful.

    Examples:

    "I've been bitter ever since that defeat."

  1. Bitter as a noun (usually in the plural [[bitters]]):

    A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.

  2. Bitter as a noun:

    A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.

  3. Bitter as a noun (nautical):

    A turn of a cable about the bitts.

  1. Bitter as a verb:

    To make bitter.

    Examples:

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  1. Bitter as a noun (computing, informal, in combination):

    A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).

  1. Taste as a noun:

    One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals.

  2. Taste as a noun (countable, and, uncountable):

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

    Examples:

    "Dr. Parker has good taste in wine."

  3. Taste as a noun:

    Personal preference; liking; predilection.

    Examples:

    "I have developed a taste for fine wine."

  4. Taste as a noun (uncountable, figuratively):

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

  5. Taste as a noun:

    A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

  1. Taste as a verb (transitive):

    To sample the flavor of something orally.

  2. Taste as a verb (intransitive):

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

    Examples:

    "The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic."

  3. Taste as a verb:

    To experience.

    Examples:

    "I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise."

    "They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom."

  4. Taste as a verb:

    To take sparingly.

  5. Taste as a verb:

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

  6. Taste as a verb (obsolete):

    To try by the touch; to handle.

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