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    Inherited fromMiddle Englishsaumple,sample, fromOld Frenchessample(“example”), fromLatinexemplum.Doublet ofexample andexemplum.

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    sample (pluralsamples)

    1. Apart orsnippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; aspecimen.
      a bloodsample
      • 1869,Richard Doddridge Blackmore, “Quo Warranto?”, inLorna Doone,page99:
        He looked down into Glen Doone first, and sniffed as if he were smelling it, like asample of goods from a wholesale house; and then he looked at the hills over yonder, and then he stared at me.
      • 2014 May 7, Anh Do, “War orphan named 'Precious Pearl' reunites with South Vietnamese soldier who rescued her in '72”, inThe Sydney Morning Herald‎[1]:
        Then one day in May 2012, he picked up a freesample of a Vietnamese-language magazine based in New Jersey. In it, he saw an article about a career Navy officer named Kimberly Mitchell and her search into her past.
    2. (statistics) Asubset orportion of a population that issystematicallyselected for measurement, observation, or questioning, with the objective of generating statistical information that accurately reflects thecharacteristics of the entire population.
      Largesamples are generally more reliable than small samples due to having less variability.
      • 1883, SirFrancis Galtonet al., “Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee”, inReport of the British Association for the Advancement of Science,page269:
        It is interesting to find that, with the exception of a few imperfectly-observed South Sea Islanders, and whose actual numbers, if the measurements are correct, are very few, the English professional classes head the long list [in average height], and that the Anglo-Saxon race takes the chief place in it among the civilised communities, although it is possible it might stand second to the Scandinavian countries if a fairsample of their population were obtained.
    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) A borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
    6. (obsolete)Example;pattern.
      • 1600,Torquato Tasso, translated byEdward Fairfax,Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem, London: Ar. Hatfield, translation ofLa Gerusalemme liberata (in Italian), book XI, page200:
        Thus he concludes, and euery hardie knight / Hisſample follow’d, and his brethren twaine, / The other Princes put on harneſſe light, / As footmen vſe.
      • 1611 April (first recorded performance),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene i],page369, column 2:
        [The King] Liu’d in Court / (Which rare it is to do) moſt prais’d, moſt lou’d, / Aſample to the yongeſt.

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    part taken for inspection
    statistics
    cooking
    business
    music

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    sample (third-person singular simple presentsamples,present participlesampling,simple past and past participlesampled)

    1. (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.
      • 1893,Mark Twain, “The £1,000,000 Bank-Note”, inThe £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other Stories,pages2–3:
        They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpowered me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that food, but as I was not asked tosample it, I had to bear my trouble as best I could.
      • 1895,Frank Richard Stockton, “Mok as a Vocalist”, inThe Adventures of Captain Horn, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published1907,page367:
        Mok was enjoying himself very much. It was not often that he had such an opportunity tosample the delights of Paris. His young master, Ralph, had given him strict orders never to go out at night, or in his leisure hours, unless accompanied by Cheditafa.
      • 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, inRailway Magazine, page703:
        It is certainly my personal favourite, for it was by way of Hardwick's great Doric arch that I firstsampled the roar and clatter of London streets, the trip being a boyhood reward for achieving (unexpected) success in a school examination!
      • 1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, inTrains Illustrated, page140:
        I did not really wonder, aftersampling the "Settebello's" standards of comfort and service, that even on a midweek day in autumn there was not a seat to spare, despite the cost.
      • 2005, Ted LoCascio,InDesign CS2 at Your Fingertips,→ISBN, page46:
        The Eyedropper tool allows you tosample colors from anywhere in your open InDesign documents (yes, even from placed images!) You can add asampled color to the Swatches palette and then apply it to the fill or stroke of any frame, shape, path, line, or table.
      • 2008, Mark Fitzgerald,Photoshop CS3 Restoration and Retouching Bible,→ISBN, page148:
        The Healing brush is similar to the Clone Stamp in that information issampled by Alt-clicking and then painted into other parts of the image. The big difference is that the Healing brush attempts to make thesampled data match the lighting and shading of the area to which it's being applied.
    2. (transitive, signal processing) To reduce acontinuoussignal (such as a sound wave) to adiscrete signal.
    3. (music, transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
      • 2011, Kembrew McLeod, Peter DiCola,Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling,→ISBN, page130:
        To address this novel legal quandary, one legal treatise on copyright has developed the concept of fragmented literal similarity, a method of determining whether a sample-based work is substantially similar to the source itsampled. The name reflects the exactness of the similarity between the snippet of a track that issampled and thesampled copy of that snippet.
    4. (transitive, computer graphics) To make or show something similar to a sample.
      • 2006,Translation of Digital Process to Architectural Program,→ISBN, page 6:
        It means that a larger image field can besampled from a lower resolution copy without much loss in comparative data, only the number of data points to be manipulated.

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    to take or to test a sample or samples of
    signal processing: to reduce a continuous signal to a discrete signal
    music: to reuse a portion of an existing recording
    to make or show something similar to a sample
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      Mandarin:please add this translation if you can
    • Finnish:tehdäsamanlainen,näyttää samanlainen
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    sample m (pluralsamples)

    1. (Louisiana, Cajun) asample

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    sample m (pluralsamples)

    1. (music)sample
      Synonym:muestra
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