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n. A portion, piece, or segment that is representative of a whole.

n. An entity that is representative of a class; a specimen. See Synonyms at example.

n. Statistics A set of elements drawn from and analyzed to estimate the characteristics of a population. Also called sampling.

n. A usually digitized audio segment taken from an original recording and inserted, often repetitively, in a new recording.

v. To take a sample of, especially to test or examine by a sample: the restaurant critic who must sample a little of everything.

v. To use or incorporate (an audio segment of an original recording) in a new recording: a song that samples the bass line of a 1970s disco tune.

adj. Serving as a representative or example: sample test questions; a sample piece of fabric.

n. 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.

n. A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questionicommeng, to provide statistical information about the population.

n. a small piece of food for tasting, typically given away for free

n. a small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free

n. 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.

n. Example; pattern.

v. To make or show something similar to; to match.

v. To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wool, cloth.

v. To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.

v. To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new song.

n. Example; pattern.

n. A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.

v. To make or show something similar to; to match.

v. To take or to test a sample or samples of.

n. Anything selected as a model for imitation; a pattern; an example; an instance.

n. A part of anything taken at random out of a large quantity and presented for inspection or intended to be shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a representative specimen: as, a sample of cloth, of wheat, of spirits, of wines, etc.

n. Synonyms Specimen, Sample. See specimen.

To place side by side with something else closely similar, for the purpose of comparison or illustration.

To match; imitate; follow the pattern or method of.

To select, or take at random, a sample or specimen of; hence, to try or test by examining or using a specimen or sample: as, to sample sugar or grain; to sample wine.

v. take a sample of

n. all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

n. a small part of something intended as representative of the whole

n. items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population

"Link to a personal blog or other online writing sample is preferred over a hard copy writing sample**"

sampled    samples    sampling   

example   

specimen    example    pattern    match    trypiece    swatch    relish    prospect    try   

ample    example    trample   

data    test    product    supply    specimen    collection    measurement    load    standard    layer