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Sample

noun

A small part of something intended as representative of the whole.

Items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population. Synonyms: sample distribution, sampling.

All or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class.

verb

Take a sample of. Synonyms: taste, try, try out. "Sample the regional dishes"

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"Sample" Quotes from Famous Books

... forgotten in the interesting watching of their enemies, and when they had fully disappeared from view the party had an opportunity for the first time in a whole week to get a sample of cooked food. ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen • Roger Finlay

... the opposite side of the road attracted his attention. The novelty of freedom having worn off, he felt no disposition to spend the remainder of the evening in the street, for the rain was now falling heavily, but determined to sample the remainder of the program offered by the "first house," and presently was reclining in a plush-covered, tip-up seat in the back row ...

— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer

... treading out the wine-press and dyeing the feet and garments with the crimson effusion as with the blood of a battlefield. The memory of the process does not make the Tuscan wine taste more deliciously. The contadini hospitably offered Kenyon a sample of the new liquor, that had already stood fermenting for a day or two. He had tried a similar draught, however, in years past, and was little inclined to make proof of it again; for he knew that it would be a sour and bitter juice, a wine of woe and ...

— The Marble Faun, Volume II. - The Romance of Monte Beni • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... commented W. Keyse. With a strong, imperious shove, he dumped the blue bundle down among the cowslips in which the feet of the guilty fair were hidden, saying sternly: "I give you three minutes to git it off your chest, else kickie is wot you'll catch instead o' tikkie." He furnished a moderate sample on account. ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... "sample" game. A small lot of garments are brought in, which, we are told, must be made up very carefully. We are made to rip, and do work over, to suit the notions of the big firms, who want the garments to send out on the road. It takes twice ...

— White Slaves • Louis A Banks

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