sample vs core

sample and core both are nouns.

sample and core both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sample	Yes	No	Yes	No
core	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, core is a hyponym of sample; that is, core is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sample:

sample: all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class
core: a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

Other hyponyms of sample include specimen.

sample (noun)	core (noun)
a small part of something intended as representative of the whole	a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population	the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class	(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
	the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
	the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
	a small group of indispensable persons or things
	the center of an object
	the central part of the Earth
	a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

sample (verb)	core (verb)
take a sample of	remove the core or center from

Difference between sample and core

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