tasting vs sample

tasting and sample both are nouns.

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

As nouns, sample is a hypernym of tasting; that is, sample is a word with a broader meaning than tasting:

tasting (noun)	sample (noun)
a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds	a small part of something intended as representative of the whole
taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality	items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
a small amount (especially of food or wine)	all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

tasting (verb)	sample (verb)
	take a sample of