Extract and Sample

Extract

Extract noun - A part taken from a longer work.
Usage example: the anthology includes a long extract from the epic poem

Sample and extract are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sample" instead the word "Extract" as a noun or a verb.

Sample

Sample noun - A number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole.
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Synonyms for Sample

Extract and sample are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Extract" instead the word "Sample" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: sampling, sampler, sampled, samp

How words are described

pure pure extract pure sample
short short extract short sample
small small extract small sample
actual actual extract actual sample
Other adjectives: concentrated.

Common collocations

blood extract blood sample blood
water extract water sample water

Both words in one sentence

  • After all, Nancy Pelosi was very obviously hatched from an egg, and no one has ever held le Baron de Rothschild down for long enough to extract a DNA sample.
  • Weight Woe Both Clover and Jerry became hooked on the cookies and became obese by the episode's end, as did the villain herself when the spies made her sample the "highly addictive sugar extract" she invented which made the cookies so addictive.
    Source: Weight Woe
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