sample
verb/ˈsɑːmpl/
/ˈsæmpl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they sample | /ˈsɑːmpl/ /ˈsæmpl/ |
| he / she / it samples | /ˈsɑːmplz/ /ˈsæmplz/ |
| past simple sampled | /ˈsɑːmpld/ /ˈsæmpld/ |
| past participle sampled | /ˈsɑːmpld/ /ˈsæmpld/ |
| -ing form sampling | /ˈsɑːmplɪŋ/ /ˈsæmplɪŋ/ |
- sample something to try a small amount of a particular food to see what it is like; to experience something for a short time to see what it is like
- I sampled the delights of Greek cooking for the first time.
- He put his head out of the window and sampled the morning air.
- We simply had to stop and sample some road-side cuisine.
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- sample somebody/something (specialist) to test, question, etc., part of something or of a group of people in order to find out what the rest is like
- 12 per cent of the children sampled said they prefer cats to dogs.
- The survey was done using a group of 100 children randomly sampled from the school population.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- randomly
- from
- sample something (specialist) to record part of a piece of music, or a sound, in order to use it in a new piece of musicTopics Musicc2
Word OriginMiddle English (as a noun): from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French essample ‘example’. Current senses of the verb date from the mid 18th cent.
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