| sample | |
| 1. n. A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen | |
| a blood sample | |
| 2. n. (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population. | |
| "...it is possible it the Anglo-Saxon race might stand second to the Scandinavian countries in average height if a fair sample of their population were obtained." Francis Galton et al. (1883). | |
| 3. n. (cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free. | |
| 4. n. (business) A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free. | |
| 5. n. (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) Example; pattern. | |
| 7. v. To take or to test a sample or samples of | |
| 8. v. (transitive, signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal. | |
| 9. v. (music, transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, computer graphics) To make or show something similar to a sample. | |
