sampler

a sampler of embroidery stitches

From Old French essamplaire, from Latin exemplāris. Doublet of exemplar.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsamplɚ/

sampler (plural samplers)

1. A piece of needlework embroidered with a variety of designs.

sample +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsamplɚ/, /ˈsampəlɚ/[1]

sampler (plural samplers)

1. Someone whose job is to take samples.
2. A device that takes samples.
3. (music) A digital device that records or merges together samples of recordings.
4. A representative selection of a larger group.
   • 2012, Eric Bishop-Potter, A Ruined Boy (page 76)

     He also made a sampler CD, with one minute samples of 26 of their songs, for free distribution to people they met in Buffalo, and to others who showed an interest in their music.

• Whitman's sampler

• → Russian: се́мплер (sémpler)

• LaPerms, Marples, lampers, palmers, relamps, repalms

Borrowed from English sampler.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsam.plɛr/
• Rhymes: -amplɛr
• Syllabification: sam‧pler

sampler m inan

1. sampler (digital device)

• sampler in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sampler in Polish dictionaries at PWN