OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 22832

sample

/ˈsɑːm.pəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ejemplar • muestra
A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
He looked down into Glen Doone first, and sniffed as if he were smelling it, like a sample of goods from a wholesale house; and then he looked at the hills over yonder, and then he…
a blood sample
muestra
A subset or portion of a population that is systematically selected for measurement, observation, or questioning, with the objective of generating statistical information that accurately reflects the characteristics of the entire population.
It is interesting to find that, with the exception of a few imperfectly-observed South Sea Islanders, and whose actual numbers, if the measurements are correct, are very few, the E…
Large samples are generally more reliable than small samples due to having less variability.
prueba
A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
muestra
A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
muestra • sample • sampleo
A borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 22833

sample

/ˈsɑːm.pəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
muestrear • samplear
To take or to test a sample or samples of.
Mok was enjoying himself very much. It was not often that he had such an opportunity to sample the delights of Paris. His young master, Ralph, had given him strict orders never to…
They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpowered me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that food, but as I was no…
mostrear • muestrear • samplear
To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
To address this novel legal quandary, one legal treatise on copyright has developed the concept of fragmented literal similarity, a method of determining whether a sample-based wor…
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