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Sample   /sˈæmpəl/   Listen
Sample

noun
1.
A small part of something intended as representative of the whole.
2.
Items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population.  Synonyms: sample distribution, sampling.
3.
All or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class.
verb
1.
Take a sample of.  Synonyms: taste, try, try out.  "Sample the regional dishes"



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"Sample" Quotes from Famous Books



... along Providence Road," answered Rose Mary enthusiastically, though not raising her eyes from the manipulation of the third butter flower. "Can't you go out and dig up some more rocks and things? I feel sure you haven't got a sample of all of them. And there may be gold and silver and precious jewels just one inch deeper than you have dug. Are you certain you can't squeeze up some oil somewhere in the meadow? You told a whole lot of reasons to Uncle Tucker why you knew you would ...
— Rose of Old Harpeth • Maria Thompson Daviess
... would rather get any friend who had, to read to me a passage out of Dante, Tasso, or Ariosto, into the first simple prose that offered itself, than go to any of the above translators for a taste of it, Fairfax excepted; and we have seen with how much allowance his sample would have to be taken. I have therefore, with some restrictions, only ventured to do for the public what I would have had a friend do ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt
... in the streets of Glamerton a man carrying in his hand a bundle of papers as a sample of what he had in the pack upon his shoulders. He bore a burden of wrath. They were all hymns and ballads of a minacious description, now one and now another of which he kept repeating in lugubrious ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... "we should then have a fine sample of your patient sufferance. Out upon you, Henry, that you will speak so like a knave to one who knows thee so well! You look at Kate, too, as if she did not know that a man in this country must make his hand keep his head, unless he will sleep in ...
— The Fair Maid of Perth • Sir Walter Scott
... "As a sample story of adventure, Mr. McGowan's narrative is a marvel fit to be classed with the historic journeyings of the greatest travellers. But it gains immensely in interest when we consider that it succeeded in its scientific purpose. The mysterious ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin


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