English Online Dictionary. What means sample? What does sample mean?
English
Etymology
Inherited 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
- Hyphenation: sam‧ple
Noun
sample (plural samples)
- A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
- (statistics) A subset or portion of a population that is systematically selected for measurement, observation, or questioning, with the objective of generating statistical information that accurately reflects the characteristics of the entire population.
- (cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
- (business) A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
- (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
- (obsolete) Example; pattern.
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Verb
sample (third-person singular simple present samples, present participle sampling, simple past and past participle sampled)
- (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.
- (transitive, signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
- (music, transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
- (transitive, computer graphics) To make or show something similar to a sample.
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Anagrams
- Mapels, maples, psalme
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɑ̃pl/
Noun
sample m (plural samples)
- (Louisiana, Cajun) a sample
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsample/ [ˈsãm.ple]
- Rhymes: -ample
- IPA(key): /ˈsampel/ [ˈsãm.pel]
- Rhymes: -ampel
- IPA(key): /ˈsampol/ [ˈsãm.pol]
- Rhymes: -ampol
- Syllabification: sam‧ple
Noun
sample m (plural samples)
- (music) sample
- Synonym: muestra