Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page MediaWiki 1.16alpha-wmf case-sensitive Media Special Talk User User talk Wiktionary Wiktionary talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Appendix Appendix talk Concordance Concordance talk Index Index talk Rhymes Rhymes talk Transwiki Transwiki talk Wikisaurus Wikisaurus talk WT WT talk Citations Citations talk 95644 6550918 2009-05-07T12:02:21Z Tbot 44393 added t for ru ==English== ===Etymology=== {{etyl|ang}} ''sample, [[asaumple]]'', {{etyl|fro}} ''[[essample]]'', example, from {{etyl|la}} ''[[exemplum]].'' ===Pronunciation=== {{audio|en-us-sample.ogg|Audio (US)}} * {{rhymes|ɑːmpəl}} ===Noun=== {{en-noun}} # A [[part]] of anything taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a [[specimen]]; as, goods are often purchased by samples. #: ''"I design this but for a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss." -Woodward.'' # {{statistics}} A subset of a [[population]] selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population. #: ''"...it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair '''sample''' of their population were obtained." Francis Galton et al. (1883). Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, [http://galton.org/cgi-bin/searchImages/galton/search/essays/pages/galton-1883-rba-anthro-report-final_14.htm p. 269].'' # {{music}} Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording, used to emphasize a particular point by implying a certain context. # {{obsolete}} [[example|Example]]; [[pattern]]. #: "Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight His '''sample''' followed." -Fairfax. ====Synonyms==== * [[specimen]] * [[example]] ====Translations==== {{top}} * Arabic: {{Arab|[[عينة]]}} {{IPAchar|(ʕaína)}} {{f}} * Chinese: [[樣品]], [[样品]] (yàngpǐn) * Czech: {{t-|cs|vzorek|m}} * Dutch: {{t+|nl|monster|n}} * Finnish: [[näyte]] (1) * French: {{t+|fr|échantillon|m}} * German: {{t+|de|Probe|f}} * Hungarian: {{t+|hu|minta}} * Italian: {{t+|it|campione|f}} {{mid}} * Japanese: [[見本]] (みほん, mihon) * Korean: [[견본]] (gyeonbon) * Norwegian: [[prøve]] {{m}} (1), [[sample]] {{n}} (2), [[eksempel]] {{n}} (3) * Portuguese: [[amostra]] {{f}} * Romanian: [[mostră]] {{f}} * Russian: {{t+|ru|образец|m|tr=obrazéts|sc=Cyrl}} * Spanish: {{t+|es|muestra|f}} * Swedish: [[provbit]] {{bottom}} ===Verb=== {{en-verb|samples|sampling|sampled}} # To make or show something similar to; to match. # To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wool, cloth. ====Translations==== {{trans-top|to take or to test a sample or samples of}} * Czech: {{t-|cs|vzorkovat}} * Finnish: [[ottaa]] [[näyte]] {{trans-mid}} * Norwegian: [[ta prøve av]] {{trans-bottom}} [[fa:sample]] [[fr:sample]] [[io:sample]] [[it:sample]] [[kk:sample]] [[ku:sample]] [[lo:sample]] [[hu:sample]] [[nl:sample]] [[ja:sample]] [[simple:sample]] [[fi:sample]] [[sv:sample]] [[ta:sample]] [[te:sample]] [[vi:sample]] [[tr:sample]] [[zh:sample]]