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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Sample \Sam"ple\, noun [OE. sample, asaumple, OF. essample, example, fr. L. exemplum. See {Example}, and cf. {Ensample}, {Sampler}.]
1. Example; pattern. [Obs.] --Spenser. "A sample to the youngest." --Shak.
Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight His sample followed. --Fairfax.
2. A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.
I design this but for a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss. --Woodward.
Syn: Specimen; example. See {Specimen}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Sample \Sam"ple\, verb (used with an object)
1. To make or show something similar to; to match. --Bp. Hall.
2. To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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 [syn: {sample distribution}, {sample}, {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; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes" [syn: {sample}, {try}, {try out}, {taste}]
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