| 单词 | sample |
| 释义 | sample (once / 280 pages) nv A sample is a small part of something that either represents a bigger whole or is designed to let you try something out. You might ask to try a sample of an exotic ice cream flavor before committing to buying a whole cone. Sample comes from the Old French essample, meaning "example." In social science experiments, researchers try to find a sample of people to study that is representative of the intended population as a whole. At the grocery store, you might be given a sample of peanut butter on a little cracker to entice you to buy it. In that case, you are given the chance to sample, or taste, the product. WORD FAMILYsample: sampled, sampler, samples, sampling+/sampler: samplers/sampling: samplings USAGE EXAMPLESA sampling of what was said Monday, and what was left unsaid: Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) Ask a random sampling of Washingtonians and you’ll find that many want to be closer to nature. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) But another reader, Daniel Orkwis, more or less counseled diners not to be cavalier about sending back wine once it’s been sampled and approved. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) 1n a small part of something intended as representative of the whole Hypo|Hyper coupon a test sample of some substance cross sectiona sample meant to be representative of a whole population grab samplea single sample or measurement taken at a specific time or over as short a period as feasible random samplea sample grabbed at random tastinga small amount (especially of food or wine) example, illustration, instance, representative an item of information that is typical of a class or group 2n all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class Hypo|Hyper specimen a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes corea cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill cytologic specimena specimen used for cytologic examination and diagnosis natural object an object occurring naturally; not made by man 3n items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population Syn|Hypo|Hyper sample distribution, sampling acceptance sampling a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected random samplea sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected proportional sample, representative sample, stratified samplethe population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum distribution, statistical distribution (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence 4v take a sample of Sample the regional dishes Syn|Hypo|Hyper taste, try, try out degust taste with relish consume, have, ingest, take, take in serve oneself to, or consume regularly |
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