0 past simple and past participle of sample
1 to taste a small amount of food or drink to decide if you like it:
2 to record part of a song and use the recording to make a new piece of music:
Having been purposefully sampled, all specialties of community nursing were represented.
To reduce the risk of error of measurement due to undetected eye movements, we preferentially sampled cells with receptive field outside the area centralis.
Fish were transferred serially such that eyes could be sampled after periods of 0, 2, 5, 10, and 20 days of exposure.
Although no visible zonation, the layer was sampled in several steps from bottom to top.
The water table had an average depth of 25 cm along the sampled radial segment and was visible in the depressions.
As only one point in each site was sampled the effects of within woodland turnover, particularly in the larger sites, would have been missed.
Alternatively, relicts of the intruding layer may solidify completely and not be sampled by subsequent eruptions.
The sampled vases include examples from all stylistic groups and most geographic regions.
