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Definition of SAMPLE
1. Verb. Take a sample of. "They SAMPLE more bread"; "Sample the regional dishes"
Generic synonyms: Consume, Have, Ingest, Take, Take In
Specialized synonyms: Degust
Derivative terms: Sampler, Sampler, Sampler, Taste, Taster, Tasting, Tasting, Trial, Trier, Tryout
2. Noun. A small part of something intended as representative of the whole.
Specialized synonyms: Coupon, Cross Section, Grab Sample, Random Sample, Tasting
3. Noun. Items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population.
Specialized synonyms: Acceptance Sampling, Random Sample, Proportional Sample, Representative Sample, Stratified Sample
Generic synonyms: Distribution, Statistical Distribution
Category relationships: Statistics
4. Noun. All or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class.
Definition of SAMPLE
1. n. Example; pattern.
2. v. t. To make or show something similar to; to match.
Definition of SAMPLE
1. Initialism. (emergency medicine) Initialism of ''signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past pertinent history, last oral intake, events leading to present illness''. ¹
2. Noun. A part of anything taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples. ¹
3. Noun. (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population. ¹
4. Noun. (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording, used to emphasize a particular point by implying a certain context. ¹
5. Noun. (obsolete) Example; pattern. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To make or show something similar to; to match. ¹
7. Verb. (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wool, cloth. ¹
8. Verb. (transitive signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal. ¹
9. Verb. (transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new song. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of SAMPLE
1. to test a representative portion of a whole [v -PLED, -PLING, -PLES]
Medical Definition of SAMPLE
1. 1. A specimen of a whole entity small enough to involve no threat or damage to the whole; an aliquot. 2. A selected subset of a population; a sample may be random or nonrandom (haphazard); representative or nonrepresentative. Origin: M.E. Ensample, fr. L. Exemplum, example (05 Mar 2000)