sampler

[ sam-pler, sahm- ]

noun

1. a person who samples.
2. a piece of cloth embroidered with various stitches, serving to show a beginner's skill in needlework.
3. a collection of samples, selections, etc.:

   a sampler of French poetry.

4. an electronic device that digitally encodes and stores samples of sound.

sampler

/ ˈsɑːmplə /

noun

1. a person who takes samples
2. 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
3. music a piece of electronic equipment used for sampling
4. a recording comprising a collection of tracks from other albums, intended to stimulate interest in the featured products

Word History and Origins

Origin of sampler¹

1250–1300; Middle English samplere < Old French essamplere, exemplaire < Latin exemplārium exemplar

Example Sentences

Later, the team analyzed what the air sampler had collected in its filter.

From Science News For Students

To see if ATX could do this, they used an experimental air sampler.

From Science News For Students

Using a “50-cent air sampler she flew from a kite and an inexpensive microscope,” she found that smoke from biomass fires in Yucatán, Mexico, had arrived in Texas, carrying bacteria and fungi, he wrote.

From Science News

This sampler is packed with six different types of this woman-owned cheese company’s finest products, including truffle cheese, tasty toma, spicy togarashi and their award-winning blue.

From Time

The sampler was initially designed for a sandy space beach with an area of 165 feet.

From MIT Technology Review

Sixty- eight air-sampler stations equipped with millipore filter paper were spread over seventy square miles.

From The Daily Beast

The compilation, which is published both in Spanish and in translation, offers a wide-ranging sampler.

From The Daily Beast

Bring your appetite for fish; I liked the aptly named fish sampler entrée, and leave room for the smoking desserts.

From The Daily Beast

Jimmy says that Faithful is a good sampler too, and when the pig saw him they tried to sample each other.

From Project Gutenberg

Then she was making a sampler, with an oak and acorn vine around it, and it was to have four different kinds of lettering on it.

From Project Gutenberg

There was no further talk about the school, but she did try to sew a little and began the sampler.

From Project Gutenberg

There are good prints provided cheap, to hang in the place of the ancient sampler or daub.

From Project Gutenberg

There is another figure on the sampler—a lady in one of those wide hoops; she has a fan in her hand.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• brocade
• decoration
• lace
• needlepoint
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