Sample vs Debt - What's the difference?
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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.
(statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
(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
* Fairfax
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.
An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
* 1589 , (William Shakespeare), Henry IV, Part I , act 1, sc. 3,
* 1850 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne), (The Scarlet Letter) , ch. 14,
The state or condition of owing something to another.
Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
* 1919 , (Upton Sinclair), Jimmie Higgins , ch. 15,
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, title= (legal) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
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 .As a noun debt is
an action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.sample
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I design this but for a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss." -Woodward.
- "...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
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- a sample to the youngest
- Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight / His sample followed.
Synonyms
* specimen * exampleVerb
Anagrams
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(wikipedia debt)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt
- Of this proud king, who studies day and night
- To answer all the debt he owes to you
- Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
- This long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.
- Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- (Burrill)