Sample
['sɑːmp(ə)l] or ['sæmpl]
Definition
(noun.) a small part of something intended as representative of the whole.
(noun.) all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class.
(verb.) take a sample of; 'Try these new crackers'; 'Sample the regional dishes'.
Checked by Aubrey--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Example; pattern.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To make or show something similar to; to match.
(v. t.) To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Specimen, illustration.[2]. Example, pattern, instance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Specimen, pattern, illustration, case, exemplification, scantling
ANT:Exception, deviation, abnormity, monstrosity, variety, nondescript, hybrid,nonsuch
Editor: Sallust
Definition
n. a specimen: a part to show the quality of the whole: an example.—v.t. to make up samples of: to place side by side with: to match: to test by examination.—ns. Sam′pler one who makes up samples (in compounds as wool-sampler); Sam′ple-room a room where samples are shown: (slang) a grog-shop; Sam′ple-scale an accurately balanced lever-scale for weighing ten-thousandths of a pound.
Checker: Vernon
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of receiving merchandise samples, denotes improvement in your business. For a traveling man to lose his samples, implies he will find himself embarrassed in business affairs, or in trouble through love engagements. For a woman to dream that she is examining samples sent her, denotes she will have chances to vary her amusements.
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Examples
- In quality and tone it is a fair sample of British political thought in 1919. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This young Crown Prince was but a sample of the abounding upper-class youth of Germany in the spring of 1914. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At the home I was guided to the library by an Irish servant-woman, to whom I communicated my knowledge of the definite locality of the sample joint. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As a sample story of adventure, Mr. McGowan's narrative is a marvel fit to be classed with the historic journeyings of the greatest travellers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Here is a sample: 'How must you spell honey to make it catch lady-birds? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The discreet Mr. Lorry said, in a sample tone of the voice he would recommend under the circumstances, How do you do, Mr. Stryver? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Paul would not stand any prolonged experience of this sort of dialogue I knew; but he certainly merited a sample of the curt and arid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Would it be said, These cases are rare, and no samples of general practice? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- One of these samples tested out poorer than a previous lot furnished from the same factory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For instance, at the time when he was making strenuous endeavors to obtain copper wire of high conductivity, strict laboratory tests were made of samples sent by manufacturers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Samples of pipes made by different ages and by different peoples would form a collection of wonderful art and ingenuity, second only to an exhibition of the means and methods of making them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There were samples of cheap clocks, and samples of cheap vases of flowers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But it is a pity, lad, he added, that you did not hang these four samples of the unwashed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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