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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024sam•ple /ˈsæmpəl/USA pronunciation n., adj., v., -pled, -pling. n. [countable] - a small part from a larger whole, showing the quality, style, or nature of the whole;
specimen:a sample of her urine for a test.
adj. [before a noun] - serving as a specimen:a sample piece of cloth.
v. [~ + object] - to take a sample of:sampled the food before serving it.
See -am-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sam•ple (sam′pəl, säm′-),USA pronunciation n., adj., v., -pled, -pling. n. - a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole;
specimen. - Statisticsa subset of a population:to study a sample of the total population.
- Radio and Televisiona sound of short duration, as a musical tone or a drumbeat, digitally stored in a synthesizer for playback.
adj. - serving as a specimen:a sample piece of cloth.
v.t. - to take a sample or samples of;
test or judge by a sample.
- Old French essample. See example
- Middle English 1250–1300
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See example.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: sample /ˈsɑːmpəl/ n - a small part of anything, intended as representative of the whole; specimen
- (as modifier): a sample bottle
Also called: sampling a set of individuals or items selected from a population for analysis to yield estimates of, or to test hypotheses about, parameters of the whole population. A biased sample is one in which the items selected share some property which influences their distribution, while a random sample is devised to avoid any such interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
vb - (transitive) to take a sample or samples of
- to take a short extract from (one record) and mix it into a different backing track
- to record (a sound) and feed it into a computerized synthesizer so that it can be reproduced at any pitch
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French essample, from Latin exemplum example |