Synonyms of the word

tasting

• n. A small amount of food or drink.
• n. The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it.
• v. present participle of taste.

degustation

• n. tasting, especially as a form of careful appreciation.

eating

• v. present participle of eat.
• adj. Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.
• n. The act of ingesting food.
• n. (informal, dialectal) Food; cooking, cuisine.
• n. The act of corroding or consuming some substance.

feeding

• v. present participle of feed.
• n. An instance of giving food.
• n. (dated) That which is eaten; food.
• n. (dated) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pastureland.

perception

• n. Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
• n. Conscious understanding of something.
• n. Vision (ability).
• n. Acuity.
• n. (cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through…

relishing

• v. present participle of relish.

sample

• n. A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality…
• n. (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide…
• n. (cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
• n. (business) A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for…
• n. (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in…
• n. (obsolete) Example; pattern.
• v. (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.
• v. (transitive, signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
• v. (music, transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
• v. (transitive, computer graphics) To make or show something similar to a sample.

savoring

• v. present participle of savor.
• n. The act by which something is savored.

savouring

• v. present participle of savour.
• n. Alternative form of savoring.

sensing

• v. present participle of sense.
• n. The act of sensation.

taste

• n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).
• n. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary,…
• n. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality…
• n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
• v. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
• v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
• v. To experience.
• v. To take sparingly.
• v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
• v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.