Sample

1. v. t. To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths.
2. n. Example; pattern.
3. n. A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.
4. v. t. To make or show something similar to; to match.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.