Sampler
noun
A piece of embroidery, sewing, or machine work used to show skill in needlework.
She learned how to cross-stitch on a small sampler.
Often appears as...
- embroidery sampler
- cross-stitch sampler
noun
A collection or set of songs, music, products, or other things intended to show the range or quality of a larger group or set.
They produced a sampler album to give potential buyers an idea of what they could expect.
Often appears as...
- sampler album
- chocolate sampler
noun
A device used for collecting samples or gathering information about something.
He used an airborne aerosol sampler to collect dust samples from the atmosphere.
Often appears as...
- airborne aerosol sampler
- gas sampler
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A piece of embroidery, sewing, or machine work used to show skill in needlework.
She learned how to cross-stitch on a small sampler.
Often appears as...
- embroidery sampler
- cross-stitch sampler
noun
A collection or set of songs, music, products, or other things intended to show the range or quality of a larger group or set.
They produced a sampler album to give potential buyers an idea of what they could expect.
Often appears as...
- sampler album
- chocolate sampler
noun
A device used for collecting samples or gathering information about something.
He used an airborne aerosol sampler to collect dust samples from the atmosphere.
Often appears as...
- airborne aerosol sampler
- gas sampler
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Craft Demonstration
Refers to a physical example of craftsmanship, usually handmade, showing needlework skills.
Grandma keeps her first sampler framed as a demonstration of her embroidery journey.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Keepsake
Traditionally, samplers often contained alphabets or quotes and were kept as family heirlooms.
The antique sampler had faded, but the alphabet embroidery was still discernible.
Pro Tip 3/3Learning Tool
Originally, samplers were used by young girls to practice and record their stitching skills.
The sewing class completed samplers showcasing various stitches they learned.
Pro Tip 1/3Craft Demonstration
Refers to a physical example of craftsmanship, usually handmade, showing needlework skills.
Grandma keeps her first sampler framed as a demonstration of her embroidery journey.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Keepsake
Traditionally, samplers often contained alphabets or quotes and were kept as family heirlooms.
The antique sampler had faded, but the alphabet embroidery was still discernible.
Pro Tip 3/3Learning Tool
Originally, samplers were used by young girls to practice and record their stitching skills.
The sewing class completed samplers showcasing various stitches they learned.
Pro Tip 1/3Craft Demonstration
Refers to a physical example of craftsmanship, usually handmade, showing needlework skills.
Grandma keeps her first sampler framed as a demonstration of her embroidery journey.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Keepsake
Traditionally, samplers often contained alphabets or quotes and were kept as family heirlooms.
The antique sampler had faded, but the alphabet embroidery was still discernible.
Pro Tip 3/3Learning Tool
Originally, samplers were used by young girls to practice and record their stitching skills.
The sewing class completed samplers showcasing various stitches they learned.
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How I Teach Kids to Love...
and with the help of the local fisherman, we are collecting sediment from the seabed with a custom sediment sampler we've invented and built. We pack the sediment into small bags, we then dispatch them to hundreds of small bags that we send to different universities,
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Deep Sea Exploration -...
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Video examples
How I Teach Kids to Love...
and with the help of the local fisherman, we are collecting sediment from the seabed with a custom sediment sampler we've invented and built. We pack the sediment into small bags, we then dispatch them to hundreds of small bags that we send to different universities,
Video examples
Deep Sea Exploration -...
its eyes we often encounter the species pain horizontally in the water column with its arms above its head here we are delicately capturing a squid through a section sampler in all da crickets can collect nearly 30 animals
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Quote examples
Lester Holt
American Journalist
The problem with being a journalist is you go places and you're working. You don't get to appreciate everything. But I got enough of a sampler of South Africa; I thought, 'I want to come here when I don't have to interview people for a living so that I can really enjoy it.' Because I think it was just a magnificent place.
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Washed Out
American Musician
The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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Ty Segall
American Musician
I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don't know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don't have those for engineering or making beats. I don't know how to use a sampler well. I don't know how to use any of these things.
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Bonobo
British Musician
I got to Brighton in the late 90s and discovered samplers. Suddenly, I could be my own band with a guitar and sampler, getting my drums in charity shop records. It was better than bashing around in someone's basement, trying to compromise ideas.
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Eberhard Weber
German Musician
Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
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No I.D.
American Musician
I tried to embrace the concept of the sampler as an instrument, looking at how to take it artistically to another place where it can be appreciated, more than just taking someone's song and doing a 4-bar loop.
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David Byrne
Scottish Musician
Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.
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Anna Quindlen
American Journalist
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
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Wayne Static
American Musician
During the day I'll work on music. I have a sampler and a drum machine out with me and I write new songs while we're on the road.
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Scott Storch
American Producer
I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.
Quote examples
Lester Holt
American Journalist
The problem with being a journalist is you go places and you're working. You don't get to appreciate everything. But I got enough of a sampler of South Africa; I thought, 'I want to come here when I don't have to interview people for a living so that I can really enjoy it.' Because I think it was just a magnificent place.
Quote examples
Washed Out
American Musician
The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
Quote examples
Ty Segall
American Musician
I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don't know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don't have those for engineering or making beats. I don't know how to use a sampler well. I don't know how to use any of these things.
Quote examples
Bonobo
British Musician
I got to Brighton in the late 90s and discovered samplers. Suddenly, I could be my own band with a guitar and sampler, getting my drums in charity shop records. It was better than bashing around in someone's basement, trying to compromise ideas.
Quote examples
Eberhard Weber
German Musician
Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
Quote examples
No I.D.
American Musician
I tried to embrace the concept of the sampler as an instrument, looking at how to take it artistically to another place where it can be appreciated, more than just taking someone's song and doing a 4-bar loop.
Quote examples
David Byrne
Scottish Musician
Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.
Quote examples
Anna Quindlen
American Journalist
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
Quote examples
Wayne Static
American Musician
During the day I'll work on music. I have a sampler and a drum machine out with me and I write new songs while we're on the road.
Quote examples
Scott Storch
American Producer
I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.
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