Specimen vs. Sample
Specimennoun
An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
Specimennoun
A sample, especially one used for diagnostic analysis.
Specimennoun
An eligible man.
Specimennoun
A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of a person's blood; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art.
Specimennoun
an example regarded as typical of its class
Specimennoun
a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes;
Samplenoun
A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen
Samplenoun
(statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
Samplenoun
(cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
Samplenoun
(business) A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
Samplenoun
(music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
Samplenoun
(obsolete) Example; pattern.
Sampleverb
(transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of
Sampleverb
To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
Sampleverb
To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
Sampleverb
To make or show something similar to a sample.
Samplenoun
Example; pattern.
Samplenoun
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.
Sampleverb
To make or show something similar to; to match.
Sampleverb
To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths.
Samplenoun
a small part of something intended as representative of the whole
Samplenoun
items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
Samplenoun
all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class
Sampleverb
take a sample of;
Samplenoun
a small part or quantity intended to show what the whole is like
Samplenoun
a small amount of a food or other commodity, especially one given to a prospective customer
Samplenoun
a specimen taken for scientific testing or analysis
Samplenoun
a portion drawn from a population, the study of which is intended to lead to statistical estimates of the attributes of the whole population
Samplenoun
a sound or piece of music created by sampling
Sampleverb
take a sample or samples of (something) for analysis
Sampleverb
try the qualities of (food or drink) by tasting it
Sampleverb
get a representative experience of
Sampleverb
ascertain the momentary value of (an analogue signal) many times a second so as to convert the signal to digital form
Sampleverb
record or extract (a small piece of music or sound) digitally for reuse as part of a composition or song
