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kosten — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cost verb To require the payment of a certain amount of money.
  • dispense verb To give out or distribute something, especially in measured amounts.
  • sample noun A small portion of something given or shown to represent the whole.
  • taste noun The sensation produced when food or drink is detected by the tongue, or the ability to perceive it.

Senses

kosten is used for these senses in English:

  • cost Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
  • cost (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
  • dispense (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
  • sample (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.
  • taste (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
  • taste (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
  • taste (transitive, figurative) To experience.

cost — full definition

  1. verb To require the payment of a certain amount of money.
  2. verb To cause someone to lose something.
  3. noun The amount of money, time, or effort needed to get or do something.
  4. noun A loss or negative result suffered in order to achieve something.

dispense — full definition

  1. verb To give out or distribute something, especially in measured amounts.
  2. verb To do without something, or get rid of the need for it (used with 'with').

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