<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen</li><li>Statistics: a subset of a population</li><li>a sound of short duration, as a musical tone or a drumbeat, digitally stored in a synthesizer for playback</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>serving as a specimen: a sample piece of cloth</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to take a sample or samples of; test or judge by a sample</li></ul>