Past tense of sample
regular verb
The past tense of sample is sampled. The past participle is also sampled.
Forms of sample
| Base form (V1) | sample /ˈsɑːm.pəl/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | sampled |
| Past participle (V3) | sampled |
| Present participle | sampling /ˈsæmpəlɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | samples |
Sampled in a sentence
- The Healing brush is similar to the Clone Stamp in that information is sampled by Alt-clicking and then painted into other parts of the image.2008, Mark Fitzgerald, Photoshop CS3 Restoration and Retouching Bible, →ISBN, page 148
- To address this novel legal quandary, one legal treatise on copyright has developed the concept of fragmented literal similarity, a method of determining whether a sample-based work is substantially similar to the source it sampled.2011, Kembrew McLeod, Peter DiCola, Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling, →ISBN, page 130
- To calculate a VOCD, words from a corpus are randomly sampled, in increasing sample sizes.2018, Jessica L. Montag, Michael N. Jones, Linda B. Smith, “Quantity and Diversity: Simulating Early Word Learning Environments”, in…. From the entry vocd
- The Intercotyledonary membrane was sampled in the area surrounding the collected placentomes.2015 September 30, “Experimental Infection of Sheep at 45 and 60 Days of Gestation with Schmallenberg Virus Readily Led to Placental…. From the entry placentomes
- Fish were sampled on the 5 th, 6 th and 8 th of May.2015 December 8, “Photoperiodic Modulation of Circadian Clock and Reproductive Axis Gene Expression in the Pre-Pubertal European Sea Bass…. From the entry spermiation
Meaning of sample
- noun A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
- noun A subset or portion of a population that is systematically selected for measurement, observation, or questioning, with the objective of generating statistical information that accurately reflects the characteristics of the entire population.
- noun A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
Questions about the past tense of sample
- What is the past tense of sample?
- The past tense of sample is sampled.
- What is the past participle of sample?
- The past participle of sample is sampled.
- Is sample a regular or irregular verb?
- Sample is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sample (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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