Definitions | sample |
| noun
- A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.
- "I design this but for a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss." -Woodward.
- (music production): gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording, used to emphasize a particular point by implying a certain context.
- Example; pattern. Obs.
- "Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight His followed." -Fairfax.
Translations: - Dutch: monster
- Dutch, monster
- French: échantillon
- German: Probe
- Italian: campione
- Spanish: muestra
verb (samples, sampling, sampled)
- To make or show something similar to; to match.
- To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloth.
Translations: Etymology: sample, asaumple, essample, example, from exemplum.
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