The difference between Impression and Taste

When used as nouns, impression means the indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another, whereas taste means one of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals.


Taste is also verb with the meaning: to sample the flavor of something orally.

check bellow for the other definitions of Impression and Taste

  1. Impression as a noun:

    The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.

    Examples:

    "His head made an impression on the pillow."

  2. Impression as a noun:

    The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.

    Examples:

    "What is your impression of Beatles' music?"

  3. Impression as a noun:

    A vague of an event, a belief.

    Examples:

    "I have the impression that he's already left for Paris."

  4. Impression as a noun:

    An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.

  5. Impression as a noun:

    An outward appearance.

  6. Impression as a noun (advertising):

    An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad. is shown once.

  7. Impression as a noun (painting):

    The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.

  8. Impression as a noun (engraving):

    A on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.

  9. Impression as a noun (philosophy):

    The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.

  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.