taste

Taste is the sense linked to the tongue, usually when eating food. The taste is how people can enjoy their food.

Example: The main tastes are sweet, sour, salty and bitter.

Someone's taste, is the kind of food, books, clothing, etc. that they like.

Example: She has great taste in clothes, but I don't understand her taste in men.

The way something tastes is the sense you get when you put it in your mouth.

Example: This milk tastes strange. I think it's bad.

If you taste something, you put it in your mouth to see if you like it.

Example: Here, taste this soup and tell me if it needs more salt.