samplern.¹

Brit.

/ˈsɑːmplə/,

/ˈsamplə/, U.S.

/ˈsæmp(ə)lər/

Forms: Middle English saumplarie, saumplarye, sawmplere, Middle English samplere, saumpler, Middle English–1700s samplar, 1500s sawmplar, 1600s semplar, 1800s dialect sampleth, 1500s– sampler.

Etymology: Aphetic < Old French essamplaire: see exemplar n.

†1. An example to be imitated; a model, pattern; an archetype; the original from which a copy is or may be taken. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > model, pattern, or example

byseningc1175

mirrora1300

samplera1300

formc1384

calendarc1385

patternc1425

exemplar?a1439

lighta1450

projectc1450

moul1565

platform1574

module1608

paradigma1623

specimen1642

butt1654

paradigm1669

type1847

fore-mark1863

model1926

a1300 Cursor Mundi 28073 Bot nu sal i tell þe her nest Hu þu sal sceu þi scrift to preist,..þat laud men mai sumquat lere To scape þair scrift wit þis samplere.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 104 Al-þough men made bokes god was þe maistre, And seynt spirit þe saumplarye and seide what men sholde write.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxv. 40 Bihold and do after the sawmplere, that to thee is shewid in the hil.

c1475 Partenay 2947 Off ther beyng here will I leue and cease, To declare and say make me will redy, As of my samplere to procede plainly.

c1480 (a1400) St. Machor 1439 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 41 For þai till hyme war as samplar to lewe his kyne þat mychty war, & þis gret pilgrimag to tak.

1565 J. Jewel tr. 2nd Nicene Councel in Replie Hardinges Answeare xiv. 515 There are not twoo sortes of Adoration..but one onely Adoration, bothe of the Image, and also of the Samplar, whereof the Image is.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 445 But the Type is past, and the veritye supplyeth the place. Latt us make a comparison betwixt the sampler and y^e trueth [Melchisedech and Christ].

1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xlii. 427 The very whores..paid him a yeerely reuenue for their bauderies; which act..is made a sampler to some of our holie Popes to imitate.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 259 Arachne first inuented..working with the needle, which this mayde of Lydia first learned from the Spyders, taking her first samplers and patterns from them for imitation.

1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xvi. 208 Christ's baptism was the perfect sampler and patterne of ours.

1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 296 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity The holinesse of Christ, which God hath propounded unto us for a samplar to imitate.

1658 T. Manton Pract. Comm. Jude in Wks. (1871) V. 85 God is the original fountain and sampler of holiness.

a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 559 True holiness consists in a likeness to the most exact Sampler.

attributive.1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 48 A stone,..some way conform to..Christ the Sampler-stone.

†2. An illustrative or typical instance; a specimen. Also, a representation, symbol, type. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > exemplifying some rule, activity, quality, etc.

asaumplea1250

evidencec1391

piecea1393

examplea1398

samplera1400

exemplarc1475

paradigm1483

instant1560

precedenta1575

exemplification1582

exemplary1583

instance1592

instancy1613

copy1641

specimen1659

patron saint1803

for instance1959

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > typical or representative thing or person

forbysenc1175

figurea1340

forbyseninga1400

samplera1400

plot1551

pattern1555

resembler1581

representative1653

specimen1654

exponent1825

type1845

typification1845

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > symbolizing by a type > [noun] > a type

byseningc1175

samplera1400

image1548

express1553

mapa1591

emblema1631

pantotype1644

model1745

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10892 Þat þou be noght o þis in weir, Ald elizabeth be þi samplere.

1623 W. Lisle Ælfric's Saxon Treat. (1638) 24 So thou maist yet at least be furthered somewhat by this little sampler [A.S. bysne].

1644 F. Quarles Barnabas & Boanerges 112 What is man but a Sampler of weaknesse?

1683 in Pennsylvania Arch. (1852) I. 73 And God is giving some Specimens hereof, some Samplars.

1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air Pref. 1 in Ess. Effects Motion To give a Semplar or Specimen of what may be done upon the other Heads of the designed History.

1697 G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemblies 25 The Temple..a Type and Samplar..of the Heavenly Temple that is above.

†a. A piece of embroidery serving as a pattern to be copied. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > embroidered fabric > sampler > as pattern to be copied

exemplarc1487

sampler1574

1574 R. Scot Perfite Platf. of Hoppe Garden (1578) 54 The Hoppesackes that are brought out of Flaunders, may be good samplers for you to worke by.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. iv. sig. Q7 Alas then, ô Loue, why doost thou in thy beautifull sampler sette such a worke for my Desire to take out, which is as much impossible?

1608 [see sense 1].

1675 T. Brooks Paradice Opened Ep. Ded. sig. c4 Such as begin to work with the needle, look much on their sampler and pattern.

b. A beginner's exercise in embroidery; a piece of canvas embroidered by a girl or woman as a specimen of skill, usually containing the alphabet and some mottos worked in ornamental characters, with various decorative devices.

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sampler1523

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 789 The saumpler to sow on, the lacis to enbraid.

1546 M. Thomson Will in Essex Rev. (1908) 17 147 I gyve to Alys Pynchebeck my sawmpler with semes.

?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. A2^v When didst thou with thy sampler..Sit sowing?

1639 J. Mayne Citye Match ii. ii Your schoole-mistresse..teaches To knit in Chaldee, and worke Hebrew samplers.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 22 Apr. 17 Our Girls forsake their samplers to teach kingdoms wisdom.

1789 R. Burns Let. 2 May (2001) I. 402 Never did..little Miss shew her applauded Sampler to [partial Maman], than I now send my Poem to you.

1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 58 Sin I furst work'd a sampleth at Biddy Forsyth's.

1862 C. S. Calverley Verses & Transl. (1894) 80 Now not all they seek to do Is create upon a sampler Beasts which Buffon never knew.

1886 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts (1889) 136 There is a ‘sampler’ worked by some idiot related to the family.

attributive.1859 A. Cary Pictures Country Life 13 I see..that it was marked with sampler letters in one corner.1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. viii. 170 Esther, for her part, taught her embroidery and sampler work.figurative and in extended use.1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving Prol. 5 Take out thy fescue, and spell here, in this one-leau'd booke. Tell the stitches in this sampler of blacke and white.1717 M. Prior Alma ii. 448 Distinguished Slashes deck the Great; As each excells in Birth, or State His Oylet-holes are more, and ampler, The King's own body was a Samplar.1819 J. Keats Wks. (1889) III. p. cxxv The more he may love the sad embroidery of the Excursion, the more will he hate the coarse samplers of Betty Foy and Alice Fell.

4. Forestry. A young tree left standing when the rest are cut down.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habitat > [noun] > forest tree > tree left standing

standard1473

staddle1543

waver1555

standing1580

sampler1652

stemmer1858

1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxv. 160 Take a good straight Pole or sampler, growing of Ash or Willow.

1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation 19 Cutting down samplers and young trees even for faggot and stack wood..has been..a common practice.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon x. 246 Standards or samplers are always left, but seldom raised to timber.

5. = sample n. 2a, 2b.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > part as representative of the whole > sample or specimen

taste1390

muster1400

sample1428

scantillon1465

say1525

casta1556

assay1581

show1582

shave1604

trial1612

essay1614

pattern1648

trial-piece1663

dasha1672

swatch1697

spice1790

sampler1823

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 136 Test for proving Steel. Take weak aqua-fortis, and drop a little on the sampler in question.

1972 T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out p. xv Minimally necessary would be a comparative sampler of the diverse preaching styles that exist in the black community.

1975 Booksellers Weekly 15 Sept. 55/3 The authors also include a sampler of foreign menus: continental, Italian, Greek, Mexican, oriental, Indonesian.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 17 Jan. 14/1 (advt.) Try this Vermont Sampler... We'll send you, on approval, our Vermont cob-smoked ham..and 1 lb. of our delicious cob-smoked bacon.

6. That which contains a sample or representative selection; spec. a gramophone record of examples of a performer, type of music, etc.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record

pre-release1871

record album1904

re-release1907

ten-inch1908

twelve-incher1909

demonstration record1911

pressing1912

swinger1924

repressing1927

transcription1931

long-player1932

rush release1935

pop record1937

album1945

demonstration disc1947

pop disc1947

pop single1947

long-play1948

picture disc1948

781949

single1949

forty-five1950

demo disc1952

EP1952

shellac1954

top of the pops1956

gold disc1957

acetate1962

platinum disc1964

chartbuster1965

miss1965

cover1966

reissue1966

pirate label1968

rock record1968

thirty-three (and a third)1968

sampler1969

white-label1970

double album1971

dubplate1976

seven-inch1977

mini-album1980

joint1991

sampler1969

1969 Nature 10 May 599/1 This paperback is a sampler of letters, periodicals, and reports in the United States relating to the publication late in 1859 of Charles Darwin's ‘Origin’.

1970 Melody Maker 20 June 27/4 We are promised jazz releases from A. & M. Records commencing shortly with a jazz sampler.

1977 Linlithgowshire Jrnl. & Gaz. 15 Apr. 6/6 And one of the best ways to start is with Atlantic Record's sampler containing numbers from the albums ‘War Babies’, ‘Abandoned Luncheonette’ and ‘Whole Oates’.

Compounds

General attributive.

C1. (In sense 3b.)

sampler rhyme n.

ΚΠ

1951 W. de la Mare Winged Chariot 51 My cross-stitch sampler-rhyme.

C2. (In sense 6.)

sampler album n. album n.² 3c.

ΚΠ

1977 Zigzag Mar. 28/3 He's also doing a sampler album, with sleeve-notes too, I think.

sampler collection n.

ΚΠ

1973 A. Dundes Mother Wit p. xii There are already sampler collections of raw folklore data available.

sampler record n.

ΚΠ

1975 Gramophone May 2024/1 Gustav Leonhardt Portrait. Sampler Record.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

samplern.²

Brit.

/ˈsɑːmplə/,

/ˈsamplə/, U.S.

/ˈsæmp(ə)lər/

Etymology: < sample v. + -er suffix¹.

1. One whose business it is to sample goods; also, one employed in any other form of sampling.

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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [noun] > maintenance of standards > person employed in

searcher1417

conner1467

policiera1500

cunster1535

wraker1584

wracker1719

sampler1778

overhauler1860

fruit-meter1881

quality controller1947

the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > specific tests or testing > by sampling > one who

sampler1778

1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 216 To make a rough guess or coarse essay, the sampler takes a handful of it, and washes it on a shovel [etc.].

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 382 The sampler takes charge of the piles.

1906 Act 6 Edward VII c. 27 §3 (2) An official sampler shall at the request of the purchaser..take a sample for analysis by the agricultural analyst of any such article.

c1950 G. van Delden I have Plan i. 15 He..came to the mine.., so they put him on the staff as a sampler.

1971 J. B. Carroll et al. Word Frequency Bk. p. xviii The responsibility for judging whether or not a textual segment was an essentially English sentence was left to the sampler.

2. A device for obtaining samples for scientific study.

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the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > miscellaneous apparatus

bain1477

speculum1650

filtering paper1651

wheel-fire1662

filter paper1670

sun furnace1763

respirator1789

candle-ball1794

rectifier1822

candle-bomb1823

filter1823

oxyhydrogen blowpipe1823

shade1837

graduator1839

pipette1839

thistle funnel1849

pressure tube1852

ozonizer1858

dialyser1861

Liebig condenser1861

Sprengel pump1866

Sprengel tube1866

water softener1867

mercury pump1869

Bunsen burner1870

dialysator1877

test-mixer1877

tube-condenser1877

Kipp1879

reflux condenser1880

policeman1888

converter1889

pressure boiler1891

spot plate1896

hydrogen electrode1898

sampler1902

reactor1903

fume-chamber1905

Permutit1910

microburner1911

salt bridge1915

precipitator1919

Raschig ring1920

microneedle1921

titrator1928

laboratory coatc1936

spray tower1937

precipitron1938

ion exchanger1941

potentiostat1942

chemostat1950

Knudsen pipette1951

pH-stat1956

cryopump1958

1902 Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. 1901 21 58 (caption) Soil sampler, after Delbecque.

1927 Bull. Nat. Res. Council (U.S.) No. 61. 237 A modification of the Davis peat-sampler.

1927 Bull. Nat. Res. Council (U.S.) No. 61. 238 In deeper water the other sampler had to be used.

1946 Geogr. Jrnl. 107 164 The core-sampler gave relatively short cores or none at all... The piston-sampler constructed by Dr. Kullenberg—a modification of the original vacuum core-sampler—secured practically undisturbed cores down to a maximum depth of over 3600 metres.

1959 Jrnl. Sci. Instruments 34 3 (heading) Impaction sampler for size grading air-borne bacteria-carrying particles.

1974 Nature 25 Oct. 678/2 The air samplers do not register this excess presumably because the size of the spray particles is beyond the upper limit of collection of the sampling duct.

Draft additions May 2001

Music.

a. An electronic device or (occasionally) a piece of software used to sample sounds, excerpts of music, etc. (cf. sample v.).

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1985 Sound on Sound Nov. 7/3 The sudden, if not anticipated, arrival of affordable samplers has now commenced.

1986 Making Music Apr. 7/1 Both samplers are MIDI compatible, have built-in disk drives, and a whizzy Roland-style alpha wheel for modifying your sounds.

1989 Blitz Jan. 35/2 Samplers are certainly going to get cheaper, and as people on the fringes of the rock scene begin to experiment with them, we may get something akin to the synth boom in the early eighties.

1993 R. Rucker et al. Mondo 2000 (U.K. ed.) 24/2 Samplers are central to the creation of much of today's ‘modern rock’ sound; particularly hip-hop, house and industrial.

1999 Muzik June 150/3 (advt.) We sell: mixers, decks, samplers, EQ's, carts, styli, headphones, amps, speakers.

b. A person who uses such a device; spec. a person who obtains digital sound samples (esp. from recordings by other artists) for use in his or her own music.

ΚΠ

1988 Oxf. Times 31 Mar. 12 James Brown has returned to the limelight as his recordings have recently been ripped widely off by ‘samplers’ (i.e. plagiarists).

1992 Vibe Fall (Preview Issue) 40/1 On the other hand, Warner/Chappell is widely viewed as being friendly to samplers.

2000 N.Y. Mag. 1 May 96/2 Fatboy Slim sounds less like a clever sampler than a deft D.J. willing to throw on anything to keep people moving.

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单词	sampler
释义	samplern.¹ Brit. /ˈsɑːmplə/, /ˈsamplə/, U.S. /ˈsæmp(ə)lər/ Forms: Middle English saumplarie, saumplarye, sawmplere, Middle English samplere, saumpler, Middle English–1700s samplar, 1500s sawmplar, 1600s semplar, 1800s dialect sampleth, 1500s– sampler. Etymology: Aphetic < Old French essamplaire: see exemplar n. †1. An example to be imitated; a model, pattern; an archetype; the original from which a copy is or may be taken. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > model, pattern, or example byseningc1175 mirrora1300 samplera1300 formc1384 calendarc1385 patternc1425 exemplar?a1439 lighta1450 projectc1450 moul1565 platform1574 module1608 paradigma1623 specimen1642 butt1654 paradigm1669 type1847 fore-mark1863 model1926 a1300 Cursor Mundi 28073 Bot nu sal i tell þe her nest Hu þu sal sceu þi scrift to preist,..þat laud men mai sumquat lere To scape þair scrift wit þis samplere. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 104 Al-þough men made bokes god was þe maistre, And seynt spirit þe saumplarye and seide what men sholde write. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxv. 40 Bihold and do after the sawmplere, that to thee is shewid in the hil. c1475 Partenay 2947 Off ther beyng here will I leue and cease, To declare and say make me will redy, As of my samplere to procede plainly. c1480 (a1400) St. Machor 1439 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 41 For þai till hyme war as samplar to lewe his kyne þat mychty war, & þis gret pilgrimag to tak. 1565 J. Jewel tr. 2nd Nicene Councel in Replie Hardinges Answeare xiv. 515 There are not twoo sortes of Adoration..but one onely Adoration, bothe of the Image, and also of the Samplar, whereof the Image is. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 445 But the Type is past, and the veritye supplyeth the place. Latt us make a comparison betwixt the sampler and y^e trueth [Melchisedech and Christ]. 1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xlii. 427 The very whores..paid him a yeerely reuenue for their bauderies; which act..is made a sampler to some of our holie Popes to imitate. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 259 Arachne first inuented..working with the needle, which this mayde of Lydia first learned from the Spyders, taking her first samplers and patterns from them for imitation. 1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xvi. 208 Christ's baptism was the perfect sampler and patterne of ours. 1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 296 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity The holinesse of Christ, which God hath propounded unto us for a samplar to imitate. 1658 T. Manton Pract. Comm. Jude in Wks. (1871) V. 85 God is the original fountain and sampler of holiness. a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 559 True holiness consists in a likeness to the most exact Sampler. attributive.1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 48 A stone,..some way conform to..Christ the Sampler-stone. †2. An illustrative or typical instance; a specimen. Also, a representation, symbol, type. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > exemplifying some rule, activity, quality, etc. asaumplea1250 evidencec1391 piecea1393 examplea1398 samplera1400 exemplarc1475 paradigm1483 instant1560 precedenta1575 exemplification1582 exemplary1583 instance1592 instancy1613 copy1641 specimen1659 patron saint1803 for instance1959 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > typical or representative thing or person forbysenc1175 figurea1340 forbyseninga1400 samplera1400 plot1551 pattern1555 resembler1581 representative1653 specimen1654 exponent1825 type1845 typification1845 society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > symbolizing by a type > [noun] > a type byseningc1175 samplera1400 image1548 express1553 mapa1591 emblema1631 pantotype1644 model1745 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10892 Þat þou be noght o þis in weir, Ald elizabeth be þi samplere. 1623 W. Lisle Ælfric's Saxon Treat. (1638) 24 So thou maist yet at least be furthered somewhat by this little sampler [A.S. bysne]. 1644 F. Quarles Barnabas & Boanerges 112 What is man but a Sampler of weaknesse? 1683 in Pennsylvania Arch. (1852) I. 73 And God is giving some Specimens hereof, some Samplars. 1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air Pref. 1 in Ess. Effects Motion To give a Semplar or Specimen of what may be done upon the other Heads of the designed History. 1697 G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemblies 25 The Temple..a Type and Samplar..of the Heavenly Temple that is above. 3. †a. A piece of embroidery serving as a pattern to be copied. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > embroidered fabric > sampler > as pattern to be copied exemplarc1487 sampler1574 1574 R. Scot Perfite Platf. of Hoppe Garden (1578) 54 The Hoppesackes that are brought out of Flaunders, may be good samplers for you to worke by. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. iv. sig. Q7 Alas then, ô Loue, why doost thou in thy beautifull sampler sette such a worke for my Desire to take out, which is as much impossible? 1608 [see sense 1]. 1675 T. Brooks Paradice Opened Ep. Ded. sig. c4 Such as begin to work with the needle, look much on their sampler and pattern. b. A beginner's exercise in embroidery; a piece of canvas embroidered by a girl or woman as a specimen of skill, usually containing the alphabet and some mottos worked in ornamental characters, with various decorative devices. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > embroidered fabric > sampler > as beginner's exercise sampler1523 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 789 The saumpler to sow on, the lacis to enbraid. 1546 M. Thomson Will in Essex Rev. (1908) 17 147 I gyve to Alys Pynchebeck my sawmpler with semes. ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. A2^v When didst thou with thy sampler..Sit sowing? 1639 J. Mayne Citye Match ii. ii Your schoole-mistresse..teaches To knit in Chaldee, and worke Hebrew samplers. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 22 Apr. 17 Our Girls forsake their samplers to teach kingdoms wisdom. 1789 R. Burns Let. 2 May (2001) I. 402 Never did..little Miss shew her applauded Sampler to [partial Maman], than I now send my Poem to you. 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 58 Sin I furst work'd a sampleth at Biddy Forsyth's. 1862 C. S. Calverley Verses & Transl. (1894) 80 Now not all they seek to do Is create upon a sampler Beasts which Buffon never knew. 1886 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts (1889) 136 There is a ‘sampler’ worked by some idiot related to the family. attributive.1859 A. Cary Pictures Country Life 13 I see..that it was marked with sampler letters in one corner.1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. viii. 170 Esther, for her part, taught her embroidery and sampler work.figurative and in extended use.1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving Prol. 5 Take out thy fescue, and spell here, in this one-leau'd booke. Tell the stitches in this sampler of blacke and white.1717 M. Prior Alma ii. 448 Distinguished Slashes deck the Great; As each excells in Birth, or State His Oylet-holes are more, and ampler, The King's own body was a Samplar.1819 J. Keats Wks. (1889) III. p. cxxv The more he may love the sad embroidery of the Excursion, the more will he hate the coarse samplers of Betty Foy and Alice Fell. 4. Forestry. A young tree left standing when the rest are cut down. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habitat > [noun] > forest tree > tree left standing standard1473 staddle1543 waver1555 standing1580 sampler1652 stemmer1858 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxv. 160 Take a good straight Pole or sampler, growing of Ash or Willow. 1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation 19 Cutting down samplers and young trees even for faggot and stack wood..has been..a common practice. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon x. 246 Standards or samplers are always left, but seldom raised to timber. 5. = sample n. 2a, 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > part as representative of the whole > sample or specimen taste1390 muster1400 sample1428 scantillon1465 say1525 casta1556 assay1581 show1582 shave1604 trial1612 essay1614 pattern1648 trial-piece1663 dasha1672 swatch1697 spice1790 sampler1823 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 136 Test for proving Steel. Take weak aqua-fortis, and drop a little on the sampler in question. 1972 T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out p. xv Minimally necessary would be a comparative sampler of the diverse preaching styles that exist in the black community. 1975 Booksellers Weekly 15 Sept. 55/3 The authors also include a sampler of foreign menus: continental, Italian, Greek, Mexican, oriental, Indonesian. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 17 Jan. 14/1 (advt.) Try this Vermont Sampler... We'll send you, on approval, our Vermont cob-smoked ham..and 1 lb. of our delicious cob-smoked bacon. 6. That which contains a sample or representative selection; spec. a gramophone record of examples of a performer, type of music, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record pre-release1871 record album1904 re-release1907 ten-inch1908 twelve-incher1909 demonstration record1911 pressing1912 swinger1924 repressing1927 transcription1931 long-player1932 rush release1935 pop record1937 album1945 demonstration disc1947 pop disc1947 pop single1947 long-play1948 picture disc1948 781949 single1949 forty-five1950 demo disc1952 EP1952 shellac1954 top of the pops1956 gold disc1957 acetate1962 platinum disc1964 chartbuster1965 miss1965 cover1966 reissue1966 pirate label1968 rock record1968 thirty-three (and a third)1968 sampler1969 white-label1970 double album1971 dubplate1976 seven-inch1977 mini-album1980 joint1991 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > part as representative of the whole > sample or specimen > that which contains a sample sampler1969 1969 Nature 10 May 599/1 This paperback is a sampler of letters, periodicals, and reports in the United States relating to the publication late in 1859 of Charles Darwin's ‘Origin’. 1970 Melody Maker 20 June 27/4 We are promised jazz releases from A. & M. Records commencing shortly with a jazz sampler. 1977 Linlithgowshire Jrnl. & Gaz. 15 Apr. 6/6 And one of the best ways to start is with Atlantic Record's sampler containing numbers from the albums ‘War Babies’, ‘Abandoned Luncheonette’ and ‘Whole Oates’. Compounds General attributive. C1. (In sense 3b.) sampler rhyme n. ΚΠ 1951 W. de la Mare Winged Chariot 51 My cross-stitch sampler-rhyme. C2. (In sense 6.) sampler album n. album n.² 3c. ΚΠ 1977 Zigzag Mar. 28/3 He's also doing a sampler album, with sleeve-notes too, I think. sampler collection n. ΚΠ 1973 A. Dundes Mother Wit p. xii There are already sampler collections of raw folklore data available. sampler record n. ΚΠ 1975 Gramophone May 2024/1 Gustav Leonhardt Portrait. Sampler Record. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). samplern.² Brit. /ˈsɑːmplə/, /ˈsamplə/, U.S. /ˈsæmp(ə)lər/ Etymology: < sample v. + -er suffix¹. 1. One whose business it is to sample goods; also, one employed in any other form of sampling. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [noun] > maintenance of standards > person employed in searcher1417 conner1467 policiera1500 cunster1535 wraker1584 wracker1719 sampler1778 overhauler1860 fruit-meter1881 quality controller1947 the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > specific tests or testing > by sampling > one who sampler1778 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 216 To make a rough guess or coarse essay, the sampler takes a handful of it, and washes it on a shovel [etc.]. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 382 The sampler takes charge of the piles. 1906 Act 6 Edward VII c. 27 §3 (2) An official sampler shall at the request of the purchaser..take a sample for analysis by the agricultural analyst of any such article. c1950 G. van Delden I have Plan i. 15 He..came to the mine.., so they put him on the staff as a sampler. 1971 J. B. Carroll et al. Word Frequency Bk. p. xviii The responsibility for judging whether or not a textual segment was an essentially English sentence was left to the sampler. 2. A device for obtaining samples for scientific study. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > miscellaneous apparatus bain1477 speculum1650 filtering paper1651 wheel-fire1662 filter paper1670 sun furnace1763 respirator1789 candle-ball1794 rectifier1822 candle-bomb1823 filter1823 oxyhydrogen blowpipe1823 shade1837 graduator1839 pipette1839 thistle funnel1849 pressure tube1852 ozonizer1858 dialyser1861 Liebig condenser1861 Sprengel pump1866 Sprengel tube1866 water softener1867 mercury pump1869 Bunsen burner1870 dialysator1877 test-mixer1877 tube-condenser1877 Kipp1879 reflux condenser1880 policeman1888 converter1889 pressure boiler1891 spot plate1896 hydrogen electrode1898 sampler1902 reactor1903 fume-chamber1905 Permutit1910 microburner1911 salt bridge1915 precipitator1919 Raschig ring1920 microneedle1921 titrator1928 laboratory coatc1936 spray tower1937 precipitron1938 ion exchanger1941 potentiostat1942 chemostat1950 Knudsen pipette1951 pH-stat1956 cryopump1958 1902 Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. 1901 21 58 (caption) Soil sampler, after Delbecque. 1927 Bull. Nat. Res. Council (U.S.) No. 61. 237 A modification of the Davis peat-sampler. 1927 Bull. Nat. Res. Council (U.S.) No. 61. 238 In deeper water the other sampler had to be used. 1946 Geogr. Jrnl. 107 164 The core-sampler gave relatively short cores or none at all... The piston-sampler constructed by Dr. Kullenberg—a modification of the original vacuum core-sampler—secured practically undisturbed cores down to a maximum depth of over 3600 metres. 1959 Jrnl. Sci. Instruments 34 3 (heading) Impaction sampler for size grading air-borne bacteria-carrying particles. 1974 Nature 25 Oct. 678/2 The air samplers do not register this excess presumably because the size of the spray particles is beyond the upper limit of collection of the sampling duct. Draft additions May 2001 Music. a. An electronic device or (occasionally) a piece of software used to sample sounds, excerpts of music, etc. (cf. sample v.). ΚΠ 1985 Sound on Sound Nov. 7/3 The sudden, if not anticipated, arrival of affordable samplers has now commenced. 1986 Making Music Apr. 7/1 Both samplers are MIDI compatible, have built-in disk drives, and a whizzy Roland-style alpha wheel for modifying your sounds. 1989 Blitz Jan. 35/2 Samplers are certainly going to get cheaper, and as people on the fringes of the rock scene begin to experiment with them, we may get something akin to the synth boom in the early eighties. 1993 R. Rucker et al. Mondo 2000 (U.K. ed.) 24/2 Samplers are central to the creation of much of today's ‘modern rock’ sound; particularly hip-hop, house and industrial. 1999 Muzik June 150/3 (advt.) We sell: mixers, decks, samplers, EQ's, carts, styli, headphones, amps, speakers. b. A person who uses such a device; spec. a person who obtains digital sound samples (esp. from recordings by other artists) for use in his or her own music. ΚΠ 1988 Oxf. Times 31 Mar. 12 James Brown has returned to the limelight as his recordings have recently been ripped widely off by ‘samplers’ (i.e. plagiarists). 1992 Vibe Fall (Preview Issue) 40/1 On the other hand, Warner/Chappell is widely viewed as being friendly to samplers. 2000 N.Y. Mag. 1 May 96/2 Fatboy Slim sounds less like a clever sampler than a deft D.J. willing to throw on anything to keep people moving. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † samplerv. Etymology: < sampler n.¹ Obsolete. = sample v. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (transitive)] evenOE comparisonc1374 measurea1382 remenec1390 compare1509 confer?1531 to lay togethera1568 lay1577 paragona1586 paragonize1589 set1589 sympathize1600 confront1604 to name on (also in) the same day1609 collate1612 to lay down by1614 sampler1628 to set together1628 matcha1649 run1650 vie1685 to put together1690 1628 W. Prynne Briefe Suruay Mr. Cozens 54 I will therefore now confine my selfe to the Matter, and Substance of these Deuotions, which I will now Paralell, and Sampler with those Popish Authors. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹a1300n.²1778v.1628
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