Style vs Sample - What's the difference?
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A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
* Chesterfield
* C. Middleton
* I. Disraeli
* Sir J. Reynolds
flair; grace; fashionable skill
(botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
* Burke
(nonstandard) A stylus.
(obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
A long, slender, bristle-like process.
The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
(computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
To create or give a style, fashion or image.
To call or give a name or title.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 10
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.
In obsolete terms the difference between style and sample
is that style is a pen; an author's pen while sample is example; pattern.As nouns the difference between style and sample
is that style is a manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one while sample is 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.As verbs the difference between style and sample
is that style is to create or give a style, fashion or image while sample is to make or show something similar to; to match.style
English
Noun
(en noun)- Style is the dress of thoughts.
- the usual style of dedications
- It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.
- The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.
- As a dancer, he has a lot of style .
- the style of Majesty
- one style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe
- (Dryden)
- the anal styles of insects
- applying styles to text in a wordprocessor
- Cascading Style Sheets
Derived terms
* stylish * stylist * hairstyle * style guide * style manualSee also
* substanceVerb
(styl)- Marianne’s preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, stiled (SIC) Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal inquiries.
Anagrams
----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.