sample vs ingest

sample is a noun but ingest is not a noun.

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

As verbs, ingest is a hypernym of sample; that is, ingest is a word with a broader meaning than sample:

Other hypernyms of sample include consume, have, take, take in.

sample (noun)	ingest (noun)
a small part of something intended as representative of the whole
items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

sample (verb)	ingest (verb)
take a sample of	take up mentally
	serve oneself to, or consume regularly