The difference between Sour and Taste

When used as nouns, sour means the sensation of a sour taste, whereas taste means one of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals.

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

Sour is also adjective with the meaning: having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.

check bellow for the other definitions of Sour and Taste

  1. Sour as an adjective:

    Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.

    Examples:

    "Lemons have a sour taste."

  2. Sour as an adjective:

    Made rancid by fermentation, etc.

    Examples:

    "'sour milk"

    "rfex en"

  3. Sour as an adjective:

    Tasting or smelling rancid.

    Examples:

    "'sour stink"

    "rfex en"

  4. Sour as an adjective:

    Peevish or bad-tempered.

    Examples:

    "He gave me a sour look."

  5. Sour as an adjective:

    Excessively acidic and thus infertile.

    Examples:

    "'sour land"

    "a sour marsh"

  6. Sour as an adjective:

    Containing excess sulfur.

    Examples:

    "rfex en"

  7. Sour as an adjective:

    Unfortunate or unfavorable.

  8. Sour as an adjective (music):

    Off-pitch, out of tune.

  1. Sour as a noun:

    The sensation of a sour taste.

    Examples:

    "rfex en"

  2. Sour as a noun:

    A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.

    Examples:

    "rfex en"

  3. Sour as a noun (by extension):

    Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.

  4. Sour as a noun:

    A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Edmund Spenser"

  1. Sour as a verb (transitive):

    To make sour.

    Examples:

    "Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe."

  2. Sour as a verb (intransitive):

    To become sour.

  3. Sour as a verb (transitive):

    To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.

  4. Sour as a verb (intransitive):

    To become disenchanted.

    Examples:

    "We broke up after our relationship soured."

  5. Sour as a verb (transitive):

    To make (soil) cold and unproductive.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Mortimer"

  6. Sour as a verb:

    To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

  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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