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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



... the water. I have a piece of each garment, and persons who have missed any of their friends mysteriously perhaps might find, upon examination, that which would lead them to know their friend had suffered death from the hands of a murderer. A sample of each I will keep to exhibit through the country, hoping to ...
— Secret Band of Brothers • Jonathan Harrington Green
... brought to light, I have hardly ever met with a skull the teeth of which showed symptoms of decay, or evidence of having been operated upon by a professional hand. Specimens of filling are even more rare than those of gold plating. Of this latter process we have now a beautiful sample in a skull discovered in the excavations of Faleria, and exhibited in the Faliscan Museum at the Villa Giulia, outside the Porta del Popolo. The gold socket or plating of three molar teeth is still in excellent condition. And ...
— Pagan and Christian Rome • Rodolfo Lanciani
... of his windmiller's candlestick {1} into a sack that stood near, and drawing up a yellow canvas "sample bag "— which served him as a purse—from the depths of his pocket, he began to count the coins by the light of the candle. He counted them over several times with increasing satisfaction, and made several slow but sure calculations ...
— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... responsibility, or leave both with the Imperial Parliament. You are now asking us to surrender the power, but to remain still subject to the responsibility. We will not bear the latter without the former. We shall prefer Home Rule." Needless to add that this device—a sample of the petty sops by which successive generations of English statesmen, Whigs and Tories alike, have sought to win over a priesthood which uses and laughs at them—failed as completely as its predecessors to settle the University ...
— Handbook of Home Rule (1887) • W. E. Gladstone et al.
... as "Bloody Ypres," referring doubtless to the Salient in general, was very apt, and will be endorsed by all who ever had the misfortune to sample it at any period of the war. We have never met anyone who boasted of having found a "cushy spot" in it, and so far as we ourselves were concerned, the three months spent in the Salient were very nearly, if not quite, the ...
— The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 - History of the 1/8th Battalion • W.C.C. Weetman


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