SAMPLE

I. noun see: example Date: 15th century a representative part or a single item from a larger whole or group especially when presented for inspection or shown as evidence of quality ; specimen , a finite part of a statistical population whose properties are studied to gain information about the whole, an excerpt from a musical recording that is used in another artist's recording, see: instance II. transitive verb (~d; sampling) Date: 1767 to take a ~ of or from, to use a segment of (another's musical recording) as part of one's own recording, III. adjective Date: 1820 serving as an illustration or example