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Sample vs Savour - What's the difference?

sample | savour |

In transitive terms the difference between sample and savour

is that sample is to reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new song while savour is to appreciate, enjoy or relish something.

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.

    • Anagrams

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    savour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * savor (chiefly US)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The specific taste or smell of something.
  • *1898 , , (Moonfleet), Ch.5:
  • *:He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
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  • *:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour .
  • A distinctive sensation.
  • *(Richard Baxter) (1615-1691)
  • *:Why is not my life a continual joy, and the savour of heaven perpetually upon my spirit?
  • Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.
  • *(George Herbert) (1593-1633)
  • *:beyond my savour

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This savours not much of distraction.
  • * Addison
    • I have rejected everything that savours of party.
  • * Rev. Joseph Bellamy
    • Begone, thou impudent wretch, to hell, thy proper place: thou art a despiser of my glorious majesty, and your frame of spirit savours of blasphemy.
  • to appreciate, enjoy or relish something.