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Paragon is a related term of sample.


As a noun paragon

is a person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.

As a verb paragon

is to compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.

As an initialism sample is

(emergency medicine) initialism of signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past pertinent history, last oral intake, events leading to present illness .

paragon

English

(wikipedia paragon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.
    • In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Man, the paragon of animals!
  • * Emerson
    • The riches of sweet Mary's son, / Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon .
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  • (obsolete) A companion; a match; an equal.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister
    (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) Comparison; competition.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:
    • good by paragone / Of euill, may more notably be rad, / As white seemes fairer, macht with blacke attone [...].
  • (typography) A size of type between great primer and double pica.
  • A flawless diamond of at least 100 carats.

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
    • (Sir Philip Sidney)
  • To compare with; to equal; to rival.
    • (Spenser)
  • * Glover
    • In arms anon to paragon the morn, / The morn new rising.
  • To serve as a model for; to surpass.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description and wild fame.
  • To be equal; to hold comparison.

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    sample

    English

    Noun

    (en 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.
    • "I design this but for a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss." -Woodward.
  • (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
    • "...it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained." Francis Galton et al. (1883). Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.
  • (cooking) a small piece of food for tasting, typically given away for free
  • (business) a small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free
  • (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.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a sample to the youngest
  • * Fairfax
    • Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight / His sample followed.

    Synonyms

    * specimen * example

    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.
  • (signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
  • To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new song.

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