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How to pronounce sample in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms taste, try, try out
Type of consume, have, ingest, take, take in
Has types degust
Derivation sampler
Type Words
Synonyms sample distribution, sampling
Type of statistical distribution, distribution
Has types acceptance sampling, proportional sample, random sample, representative sample, stratified sample
Type Words
Type of natural object
Has types specimen, core
Type Words
Type of illustration, example, instance, representative
Has types grab sample, cross section, coupon, tasting, random sample

Examples of sample

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The data are based on annual sample surveys and are not part of the 2010 Census.
From the news-journalonline.com
Dr. Pagano validated the SOS using a sample of 301 treatment-seeking alcoholics.
From the sciencedaily.com
How could we, when there are so many wonderful dishes to sample week after week?
From the latimes.com
Customers will be able to buy a wine sample before taking home a bottle or case.
From the thenewstribune.com
A sample of the daily rat haul is combed for fleas, which are tested for plague.
From the latimes.com
It turned out the sample contained live H5N1, which Baxter uses to make vaccine.
From the newscientist.com
Most Maine wineries have tasting rooms where visitors can sample their products.
From the boston.com
Each of these by-products disturbs the microfluidic device and the fluid sample.
From the sciencedaily.com
Next week Londoners get to sample two new shows of Weiwei's work for themselves.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • A small part of something intended as representative of the whole
  • Take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes"
  • Sample distribution: items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
  • All or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class
  • (sampling) (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study
  • (sampling) measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
  • In general, a sample is a limited quantity of something which is intended to be similar to and represent a larger amount of that thing(s). The things could be countable objects such as individual items available as units for sale, or a material not countable as individual items. ...
  • In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song. The wide spread use of sampling in popular music originated with the birth of hip hop music in New York in the 1970s. ...
  • SAMPLE history is an mnemonic acronym for first responders to remember key questions for patient assessment. The history is usually taken along with vital signs. This is used for alert patients, but often much of this information can also be obtained from the family of an unresponsive patient.