sample
- Initialism. (emergency medicine) Initialism of ''signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past pertinent history, last oral intake, events leading to present illness''.
- 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.
- Noun. (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
- Noun. (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.
- Noun. (obsolete) Example; pattern.
- Verb. (transitive) To make or show something similar to; to match.
- Verb. (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wool, cloth.
- Verb. (transitive, signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
- Verb. (transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new song.
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