Portion and Sample

Portion

Portion noun - A state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand.

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Sample and portion are semantically related In some cases you can use "Sample" instead a noun "Portion".

Nearby Words: portioned, portioning, porting, portionless

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

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Portion and sample are semantically related in example topic. Sometimes you can use "Portion" instead a noun "Sample".

Nearby Words: sampling, sampler, sampled, samp

human	human portion	human sample
good	good portion	good sample
physical	physical portion	physical sample
particular	particular portion	particular sample
Other adjectives: specific, brief, short, small, healthy, actual, entire, vocal, large, tiny, main, new, larger, remaining, unknown, last, sizable, largest.

time	portion time	sample time
world	portion world	sample world

Sampling (or replaying a riff or section but not an entire cover) directly is a gray area - generally, it's not considered plagiarism if it only makes up one portion of the song and permission has been sought and given, and/or the sample is public domain or from a public broadcast or the like.

Source: Useful Notes / Plagiarism

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