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Taste (also called smatch or gustation; adjectival form: gustatory) is one of the traditional five senses. It refers to the ability to detect the flavor of substances such as food, certain minerals, poisons, etc.
Humans receive tastes through sensory organs called taste buds, or gustatory calyculi, concentrated on the top of the tongue. Taste is sensed through taste cells, which are known as taste buds. There are about 100,000 taste buds that are located on the back and front of the tongue. Others are located on the roof, sides and back of the mouth, and in the throat. The sensation of taste can be categorized into five basic tastes: sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and umami. “Umami” is originally the Japanese word for “meaty” or “savory”. Not surprisingly, it is characteristic of many Asian dishes. The amino acid glutamate produces a strong umami taste. The tongue is able to differentiate between the different tastes based on different molecules or ions that bind to the taste cell. Sweet, umami, and bitter taste is triggered by different molecules that bind to the G protein-coupled membrane receptors; while saltiness is from Na+ ions and sourness is from H+ ions entering the cell. As taste senses both harmful and beneficial things, all basic tastes are classified as either aversive or appetitive, depending upon the effect the things they sense have on our bodies. Sweetness helps to identify energy-rich foods, while bitterness serves as a warning sign of poisons.
Love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment. Love is also a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection —"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". Love may also be described as actions towards others or oneself based on compassion, or as actions towards others based on affection.
In English, love refers to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from pleasure ("I loved that meal") to interpersonal attraction ("I love my partner"). "Love" may refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the sexual love of eros, to the emotional closeness of familial love, to the platonic love that defines friendship, or to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.
Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.
Swans, genus Cygnus, are birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Sometimes, they are considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae. There are six to seven species of swan in the genus Cygnus; in addition there is another species known as the Coscoroba Swan, although this species is no longer considered related to the true swans. Swans usually mate for life, though 'divorce' does sometimes occur, particularly following nesting failure. The number of eggs in each clutch ranges from three to eight.
The word swan is derived from Old English swan, akin to the German Schwan and Dutch zwaan and Swedish svan, in turn derived from Indo-European root *swen (to sound, to sing). Young swans are known as swanlings or as cygnets, from Greek κύκνος, kýknos and from the Latin word cygnus ("swan") and the Old French suffix -et ("little"). An adult male is a cob, from Middle English cobbe (leader of a group); an adult female is a pen.
City boy
and country girl
into very different worlds
get together for the cause
you scratch my back
I scratch yours
Everybody is on the mean
because some folks give
and some folks take
now we're lookin' for the perfect man
see it's in the song
it's in the sky
Well,
I believe it
in the stars
and I should go so far
Once
you had a
taste of love
then you know you
can't exist without it
love is like a drug that
you just can't do without
makes you so excited
makes you wanna shout
Was you by the simple
you'll never want to stop
follow my example
I'll take you to the top
A taste of love
oh-oh,
a taste of love
a taste of love
you need a taste of love
A taste of love
oh-oh,
a taste of love
a taste of love
you wanna taste of love
The harder bit to take a risk
love is always hit for miss
never know until they try
let's see what's happens
you and I
You know
everybody
is on the mean
because some folks give
and some folks take
looking for the perfect man
see it's in the song
it's in the scratch
Now, it's just the
two of us
we're
so young and curious
I don't care what
people say
let's discover
what we can discover
love is like a drug that
you just can't do without
makes you so excited
makes you wanna shout
Was you by the simple
you'll never want to stop
follow my example
I'll take you to the top
A taste of love
oh-oh,
a taste of love
a taste of love
you need a taste of love
A taste of love
oh-oh,
a taste of love
a taste of love
oh-oh
a taste of love
A taste of love
oh-oh,
a taste of love
a taste of love
you wanna taste of love
A taste of love
oh-oh,
a taste of love
a taste of love
you wanna taste of love
Love is like a drug that
you just can't do without
makes you so excited
makes you wanna shout
Was you by the simple
you'll never want to stop
follow my example
I'll take you to the top
A taste of love
oh-oh,
a taste of love
a taste of love
I wanna a taste of love
A taste of love
oh-oh,
a taste of love
a taste of love