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sample
[sam-puhl, sahm-]
noun
a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
Statistics.a subset of a population.
to study a sample of the total population.
a sound of short duration, as a musical tone or a drumbeat, digitally stored in a synthesizer for playback.
adjective
serving as a specimen.
a sample piece of cloth.
verb (used with object)
to take a sample or samples of; test or judge by a sample.
sample
/ ˈɑːə /
noun
a small part of anything, intended as representative of the whole; specimen
( as modifier )
a sample bottle
Also called: sampling.statistics
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 See also matched sample
( as modifier )
sample distribution
verb
(tr) to take a sample or samples of
music
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
sample
In statistics, a group drawn from a larger population and used to estimate the characteristics of the whole population.
Other Word Forms
- intersample noun
- missample verb
- resample verb (used with object)
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of sample1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
This new study was funded by environmental charity Fidras and involved sampling in 5 rivers in Wales, 3 in Northern Ireland 14 in Scotland and 10 in the north of England.
Here is a sampling of how life is changing:
Officials have also been trying to establish how many people were killed on the ground and have been continuing the slow process of matching DNA samples to confirm the victims' identities.
Back at the hospital, doctors are racing to complete the DNA sampling of the victims so that they can start returning bodies to their families.
Those results suggest that ordinary citizens, in small groups composed of representative samples, can make sound, fact-based decisions — at the same public-spirited level that James Madison sought to ensure in his design of the U.S.
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