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Word: sample (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A part of anything taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.
  • music Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording, used to emphasize a particular point by implying a certain context.
  • obsolete Example; pattern.
  • statistics A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.

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Verb:

  • To make or show something similar to; to match.
  • To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wool, cloth.

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