an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something
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someone who samples food or drink for its quality
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an assortment of various samples
<noun.group> a candy sampler a sampler of French poets
a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches
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Sampler \Sam"pler\, n. [See {Exampler}, {Exemplar}.] 1. One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.
2. A pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker.
Susie dear, bring your sampler and Mrs. Schumann will show you how to make that W you bothered over. --E. E. Hale.
Covering 4 percent of the country, wilderness areas comprise a sampler of the American landscape: Great Gulf and Lost Creek, Mud Swamp and Thunder Ridge.
Then, in 1986, the Center for Applied Linguistics, a non-profit Washington education and research organization, donated an 118-hour sampler of American dialects drawn from previously inaccessible private collections.
Still the sampler, which includes a track from each album, should be out in the next two weeks, and gives an instant run-down on the current state of British pop.