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taster en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /teɪstɚ/

Etymology

From Middle English taster; equivalent to taste + -er.

Meanings

  1. An object in which, or by which, food or drink is tasted, such as a small cup or spoon.
    • A flight of tasters was served to the people who would vote on the next soda flavor to be released.
  2. Someone who tastes something; especially, either (1) to check its quality (in food science, winemaking, etc.) or (2) as a security measure to prevent assassination of a protectee.
    • Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
    • Being a cook for protectees also entails being a taster for them.
    • Several tasters noted the “overly sweet” coconut aroma, carrying through to a “too sweet” flavour and “too chewy” mouthfeel. One taster said that masticating the biscuit felt like “an intense workout”. 2023 April 22, Yvonne C. Lam, “Supermarket Anzac biscuit taste test: from ‘beautiful’ to ‘an intense workout’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023:
    • Big companies such as P&G or Kraft Heinz employ or contract with professional tasters who help with product development.
  3. A kind of zooid situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophorae, resembling the feeding zooids, but destitute of mouths.
  4. A sample of something bigger or grander intended for future use.
    • The Samsung exhibit at the trade fair was a taster of new consumer electronic products set to hit the market soon.
    • The Kraft Heinz exhibit at the trade fair was a taster of new snack products set to hit the market soon.
  5. A person who is, by genetic makeup, able to taste phenylthiocarbamide.
  6. (historical) A unit of volume equivalent to a Roman cyathus.

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Antonyms

nontaster

Deriveds

aletaster · ale-taster · supertaster · poison taster · foretaster · winetaster · hypertaster

Hypernyms

tester

Relateds

winetasting · tasting · tastebuds

Synonyms

degustator

Translations (13)

ga blastóir (Person who tastes wine etc.) · gv blassteyder (Person who tastes wine etc.) · pl degustator (Person who tastes wine etc.) · fr goûteuse (Person who tastes wine etc.) · fi maistaja (Person who tastes wine etc.) · az dadıcı (Person who tastes wine etc.) · bg дегустатор (Person who tastes wine etc.) · fr goûteur (Person who tastes wine etc.) · hu kóstoló (Person who tastes wine etc.) · gl catador (Person who tastes wine etc.) · pl degustatorka (Person who tastes wine etc.) · ar مُتَذَوِّق (Person who tastes wine etc.) · vi người nếm thử (Person who tastes wine etc.)