Talk:sample

RFV discussion: January–June 2017
Rfv-sense: "to make or show something similar to; to match". I don't understand what this definition has to do with sampling, nor do I find similar definitions in other major dictionaries. --Hekaheka (talk) 15:52, 9 January 2017 (UTC)


 * I am not sure, but after poking around, I found something that may be what this definition is trying to capture - or possibly two things, one from music and one from image processing:


 * Kiwima (talk) 18:56, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Of your examples #1 fits the music sense: "to reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.". The second and fourth examples could be understood as cases of the first definition: "to take or to test a sample or samples of". In the example sentences one takes a sample of a color and then applies this sample somewhere else. In the third one the usage of the verb "to sample" seems to include both phases, i.e. taking the sample and applying the sampled color in another image. I still find the logic behind the wording of the definition quite fuzzy. Also, is the sense specific to image processing? If so, proper labeling would help. --Hekaheka (talk) 07:53, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Kiwima (talk) 18:56, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Of your examples #1 fits the music sense: "to reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.". The second and fourth examples could be understood as cases of the first definition: "to take or to test a sample or samples of". In the example sentences one takes a sample of a color and then applies this sample somewhere else. In the third one the usage of the verb "to sample" seems to include both phases, i.e. taking the sample and applying the sampled color in another image. I still find the logic behind the wording of the definition quite fuzzy. Also, is the sense specific to image processing? If so, proper labeling would help. --Hekaheka (talk) 07:53, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Of your examples #1 fits the music sense: "to reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.". The second and fourth examples could be understood as cases of the first definition: "to take or to test a sample or samples of". In the example sentences one takes a sample of a color and then applies this sample somewhere else. In the third one the usage of the verb "to sample" seems to include both phases, i.e. taking the sample and applying the sampled color in another image. I still find the logic behind the wording of the definition quite fuzzy. Also, is the sense specific to image processing? If so, proper labeling would help. --Hekaheka (talk) 07:53, 10 January 2017 (UTC)


 * RFV passed: copied the above quotes to the entry, edited the disputed definition, struck. --Hekaheka (talk) 19:43, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Possible missing verb sense
Chambers 1908 has a transitive verb sense "to place side by side with; to match". One might do this with samples (of, say, carpet) to compare them, but we don't seem to have such a sense yet. Equinox ◑ 05:24, 5 September 2019 (UTC)