What is the meaning of tasting?

noun

• A small amount (especially of food or wine. )
• A kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds.
  • usage: "a wine tasting"
  • synonyms: taste
• Taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality.
  • usage: "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most"
  • synonyms: savoring, savouring, relishing, degustation

verb

• Have flavor; taste of something.
  • synonyms: taste, savor, savour
• Perceive by the sense of taste.
  • usage: "Can you taste the garlic"
  • synonyms: taste
• Take a sample of.
  • usage: "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes"
  • synonyms: sample, try, try out, taste
• Have a distinctive or characteristic taste.
  • usage: "This tastes of nutmeg"
  • synonyms: smack, taste
• Distinguish flavors.
  • usage: "We tasted wines last night"
  • synonyms: taste
• Experience briefly.
  • usage: "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died"
  • synonyms: taste