The difference between Sample and Taste

When used as nouns, sample means a part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole, whereas taste means one of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals.

When used as verbs, sample means to take or to test a sample or samples of, whereas taste means to sample the flavor of something orally.

check bellow for the other definitions of Sample and Taste

  1. Sample as a noun:

    A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.

    Examples:

    "a blood sample"

  2. Sample as a noun (statistics):

    A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.

  3. Sample as a noun (cooking):

    A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.

  4. Sample as a noun (business):

    A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.

  5. Sample as a noun (music):

    Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.

  6. Sample as a noun (obsolete):

    Example; pattern.

  1. Sample as a verb (transitive):

    To take or to test a sample or samples of.

  2. Sample as a verb (transitive, signal processing):

    To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.

  3. Sample as a verb (music, transitive):

    To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.

  4. Sample as a verb (transitive, computer graphics):

    To make or show something similar to a sample.

  1. Taste as a noun:

    One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals.

  2. Taste as a noun (countable, and, uncountable):

    A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.

    Examples:

    "Dr. Parker has good taste in wine."

  3. Taste as a noun:

    Personal preference; liking; predilection.

    Examples:

    "I have developed a taste for fine wine."

  4. Taste as a noun (uncountable, figuratively):

    A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.

  5. Taste as a noun:

    A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

  1. Taste as a verb (transitive):

    To sample the flavor of something orally.

  2. Taste as a verb (intransitive):

    To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.

    Examples:

    "The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic."

  3. Taste as a verb:

    To experience.

    Examples:

    "I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise."

    "They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom."

  4. Taste as a verb:

    To take sparingly.

  5. Taste as a verb:

    To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.

  6. Taste as a verb (obsolete):

    To try by the touch; to handle.

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