different between sample vs apotheosis

English

Etymology

From Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and exemplum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??m.p?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sæm.p?l/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /sæ?m.p?l/, /s??m.p?l/
• Rhymes: -??mp?l
• Rhymes: -æmp?l

Noun

sample (plural samples)

1. A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.

   a blood sample
2. (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.

   Large samples are generally more reliable than small samples due to having less variability.
3. (cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
4. (business) A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
5. (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
6. (obsolete) Example; pattern.

Synonyms

• specimen
• example

Hyponyms

• product sample

Translations

Verb

sample (third-person singular simple present samples, present participle sampling, simple past and past participle sampled)

1. (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.
2. (transitive, signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
3. (music, transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
4. (transitive, computer graphics) To make or show something similar to a sample.

Translations

Anagrams

• maples, psalme

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??pl/

Noun

sample m (plural samples)

1. (Louisiana, Cajun French) a sample

Spanish

Noun

sample m (plural samples)

1. (music) sample

English

Etymology

From Latin apothe?sis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (apothé?sis), from verb ??????? (apotheó?, “deify”) (factitive verb formed from ???? (theós, “God”) with intensive prefix ???- (apo-)) + -??? (-sis, “forms noun of action”). Surface analysis apo- +? theo- +? -sis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p??.i????.s?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??p??.?i?o?.s?s/
• Rhymes: -??s?s

Noun

apotheosis (countable and uncountable, plural apotheoses)

1. The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.

   Synonym: deification

   • 1986, SRF Price, Rituals and Power, p. 75:

   • 2002, CE Newlands, Statius' Silvae and the Politics of Empire, p. 176:

2. Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.

   Synonyms: exaltation, glorification

   • 1974, Per Lord Hailsham, Smedleys Ltd v Breed [1974]2 All ER 21(HL) at 24:

3. A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).

   Synonyms: apex, paragon

   • 1925, William Carlos Williams, 'Edgar Allan Poe', In The American Grain, 1990, p. 232:
4. The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).

   Synonyms: apex, climax, culmination, peak, pinnacle

5. (loosely) Release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death.

   Synonym: death

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

6. (psychology) The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts. The id, ego and superego in Freudian Psychology are examples of this.

Derived terms

• apotheosize
• apotheotic

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• apoth. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (apothé?sis), from verb ??????? (apotheó?, “deify”) (factitive verb formed from ???? (theós, “God”) with intensive prefix ???- (apo-)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.po.t?e?o?.sis/, [äp?t??e?o?s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.po.te?o.sis/, [?p?t?????s?is]

Noun

apothe?sis f (genitive apothe?sis); third declension

1. apotheosis, deification

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

References

• apotheosis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apotheosis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• apotheosis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apotheosis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin