sampler
Americannoun
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a person who takes samples
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a piece of embroidery executed as an example of the embroiderer's skill in using a variety of stitches: often incorporating numbers, letters, and the name and age of the embroiderer in a decorative panel
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music a piece of electronic equipment used for sampling
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a recording comprising a collection of tracks from other albums, intended to stimulate interest in the featured products
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of sampler
1250–1300; Middle English samplere < Old French essamplere, exemplaire < Latin exemplārium exemplar
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One core sampler will collect material from depths of up to 2 cm.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
With 12 works out of the choreographer’s catalog of more than 200 creations—and dating from 1982 to last year—the sampler focused on his dances inspired by American music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
That sampler captured the band’s brand of thrash punk in its purest form.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
"That's the sound you hear on Strawberry Fields Forever," he says, indicating a Mellotron organ, an early sampler that used tape loops to produce orchestral sounds.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
My grandmother's sampler, from when she was a girl, said "Be Not Solitary, Be Not Idle."
From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
One of its air samplers, in Parcel C — collected 8.16 times 10‐15 picocuries per milliliter of Plutonium-239 — twice the established action level — according to a Navy spokesperson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
To measure pesticide exposure, four of the volunteers wore cotton full-body suits with veils, socks and gloves that would pick up contact residues and personal air samplers that would capture airborne residues.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024
The daughter of Leftfield's Neil Barnes, she was a toddler tripping over cables and samplers while he recorded the iconic British dance album Leftfield in their flat.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2023
Over McCartney’s career, he has been quick to engage with new creative technologies, whether talking about synthesizers or samplers, she said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
The office was cramped, with filing cabinets the proctor had to squeeze through to get to her desk, but she kept it pleasant with samplers on the walls detailing farming scenes.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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