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Definition of Sample

Sample

  1. Example; pattern.
  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.
  3. To make or show something similar to; to match.
  4. To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths.

Sample Quotations

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

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

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

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.
Harry Connick, Jr.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
Nate Silver
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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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