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Sampler vs Simpler - What's the difference?

sampler | simpler |

As nouns the difference between sampler and simpler

is that sampler is someone whose job is to take samples while simpler is one who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).

As an adjective simpler is

comparative of simple Less complicated or challenging.

sampler

English

(wikipedia sampler)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone whose job is to take samples.
  • A device that takes samples.
  • (music) A digital device that merges together samples of recordings.
  • A piece of needlework embroidered with a variety of designs.
  • A representative selection of a larger group.

    • Derived terms

    * Whitman's sampler

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    simpler

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (simple) Less complicated or challenging.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
  • * 1781 , , Miscellanies'', Essay VII, ''On the Linnæan System , page 273:
    • One of the great pleasures in botany is, to produce a rather uncommon plant to those who know it to be curious; but the English botanist will not have much satisfaction in shewing it to a simpler , who is not acquainted with it under the name given by Gerard or Ray.
  • * 1833 , William Hogarth, Anecdotes of William Hogarth: written by himself , page 48:
    • … may with no great impropriety be termed going a simpling; but with this special difference, that your field simpler' never picks up a nettle for a marsh-mallow; a mistake which your tour ' simpler is very liable to.

    Synonyms

    * simplist

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