sample

English Online Dictionary. What means sample‎? What does sample mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and exemplum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑːm.pəl/
• (Northern England, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈsam.pəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsæm.pəl/, [ˈsɛəmpəɫ]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsæːm.pəl/, /ˈsaːm.pəl/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈsaːm.pəl/, [ˈsäːmpɯ]
• Rhymes: -ɑːmpəl, -æmpəl

Noun

sample (plural samples)

1. A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
2. (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
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) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
6. (obsolete) Example; pattern.

Synonyms

• specimen
• example

Hyponyms

• product sample

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sample (third-person singular simple present samples, present participle sampling, simple past and past participle sampled)

1. (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.
2. (transitive, signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
3. (music, transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
4. (transitive, computer graphics) To make or show something similar to a sample.

Translations

Anagrams

• Mapels, maples, psalme

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃pl/

Noun

sample m (plural samples)

1. (Louisiana, Cajun) a sample

Spanish

Noun

sample m (plural samples)

1. (music) sample