1. A small part of something intended as representative of the whole 
2. Items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
   - sample distribution, sampling 
3. All or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

1. Take a sample of
   "Sample the regional dishes"
   - try, try out, taste

Derived forms: sampled, sampling, samples

See also: sampler

Type of: consume, distribution, example, have, illustration, ingest, instance, natural object, representative, statistical distribution, take, take in

Encyclopedia: Sample

• Italian sandwich
• Italian sonnet
• Italian vegetable marrow
• Italian vermouth
• Italian woodbine
• Italian-speaking
• Italianate
• Italianize
• italic
• Italic language
• italicise
• italicize
• Italo Calvino
• Italy
• itch
• itch mite
• itchiness
• itching
• itchy
• itchy feet
• item
• item-by-item
• itemisation
• itemise
• itemization