sample

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈsɑːm.pəl/    /ˈsæm.pəl/|[ˈsɛəm.pəɫ]|/ˈsæːm.pəl/|/ˈsaːm.pəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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
  2. 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.
    — Large samples are generally more reliable than small samples due to having less variability.
  3. A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
  4. A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
  5. A borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
  6. Example; pattern. obsolete
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To take or to test a sample or samples of. transitive
    — 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 not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best I could.
  2. To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal. transitive
  3. To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music. transitive
    — 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 work is substantially similar to the source it sampled. The name reflects the exactness of the similarity between the snippet of a track that is sampled and the sampled copy of that snippet.
  4. To make or show something similar to a sample. transitive
    — It means that a larger image field can be sampled from a lower resolution copy without much loss in comparative data, only the number of data points to be manipulated.

词形变化

samples plural samples present,singular,third-person sampling participle,present sampled participle,past sampled past

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and exemplum.
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and exemplum.
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