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sample

2 verb
     
sample2 [transitive]
1 to taste food or drink in order to see what it is like:
a chance to sample the local food
2 to choose some people from a larger group in order to ask them questions or get information from them:
18% of the adults sampled admitted having had problems with alcohol abuse.
3 to try an activity, go to a place etc in order to see what it is like:
Here's your chance to sample the delights of country life.
4 to use a small part of a song from a CD or record in a new song:
Many of his songs have been sampled by other artists.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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