Meaning

• A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.

  "a blood sample"

• A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.

• A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.

• A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.

• Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.

• Example; pattern.

Meaning

• To take or to test a sample or samples of.

• To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.

• To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.

• To make or show something similar to a sample.