pretaste

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noun

A taste taken beforehand.

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Meanings

nounpretaste (plural pretastes)

plural pretastes

  1. A taste taken beforehand.

    […] sodium chloride was discriminated significantly better after a pretaste of distilled water, hot bouillon, hot coffee (1% level), or tomato juice (5% level), than after milk, apple juice, or raw apple.

    2013, Maynard A. Amerine, Rose Marie Pangborn, Edward B. Roessler, Principles of Sensory Evaluation of Food, page 308
verbpretaste (third-person singular simple present pretastes, present participle pretasting, simple past and past participle pretasted)

present singular third person pretastes · participle present pretasting · participle past pretasted · past pretasted

  1. To take a previous or initial taste.

Origin

From pre- + taste.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

prestatetapesterTarpetes
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APA

pretaste. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pretaste

MLA

“pretaste.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pretaste. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pretaste,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pretaste.

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