Definition of Sample

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Sample

Example; pattern.

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.

To make or show something similar to; to match.

To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths.

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Sample Quotations

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.
Rodney Dangerfield

Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
Calvin Klein

I'm a sample of Jesus. I'm a super being.
Benny Hinn

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
Walter Lippmann

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.
Janice Dickinson

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.
Rudolf Arnheim

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
Vanilla Ice

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
Kenneth L. Pike

However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.
Mike Fitzpatrick

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.
Sarah Zettel

Sample Translations

sample in Afrikaans is monster
sample in Dutch is proefstuk, monster, proef, specimen
sample in German is Probe, abtasten, Muster, abfragen
sample in Italian is prova, esemplare
sample in Portuguese is amostra
sample in Spanish is muestra
sample in Swedish is provbit, smakprov

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