English Dictionary

sample

/ˈsɑːm.pəl/

noun

A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.

This is a sample sentence.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.

Large samples are generally more reliable than small samples due to having less variability.

意味（3）

(cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.

意味（4）

(business) A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.

意味（5）

(music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.

Jeffrey conceives a fascination with nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) who sings Blue Velvet, while her abusive, misogynist sugar-daddy Frank (Dennis Hopper) watches, caressing a sample of this same material.

意味（6）

(obsolete) Example; pattern.

Thus he concludes, and euery hardie knight / His ſample follow’d, and his brethren twaine, / The other Princes put on harneſſe light, / As footmen vſe.