The word "sampler" is correct in written English
It is typically used to refer to a small selection of items or examples, often used in contexts like food, music, or crafts.
Example: "The bakery offered a sampler of their best pastries for customers to try."
Alternatives: "Selection" or "Assortment"
A two-day sampler trip costs from $148pp.
Combined with the sampler, a new piece of digital hardware that recorded snippets of sound for deployment in other contexts, it allowed producers to create extended loops over which rappers could perform.The first hip-hop producers to use what became known as the "Amen break" did so with no great ambition.
However, the sampler comes with an excellent 72-page booklet introducing Alan Lomax, his father, his work and the collection; it also includes a wonderful article, "Saga of a Folksong Hunter", that Mr Lomax originally published in 1950.
ABOVE a large oak bookcase in John Kenneth Galbraith's elegant sitting room in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a framed sampler was displayed.
Soon, thanks to the wonders of the sampler, the Amen break was providing rhythmic heft for rappers, although usually in fairly rudimentary fashion.
A sampler CD compiled from the entire series is also available.
But more than anything it was the sampler that galvanised these producers.
The most universal water sampler used today, the Nansen bottle, is a modification of a type developed in the latter part of the 19th century by the Norwegian Arctic explorer and oceanographer Fridtjof Nansen.
Certainly, some was designed to endure, such as documents, family portraits, and gravestones; occasional types were made purely for display, such as the "show towel" of the Pennsylvania Germans and the sampler (a piece of needlework with letters or verses embroidered on it as an example of skill); and certain household treasures were preserved for generations.
The original purpose of the sampler, in the period before embroidery pattern books became available in 1523, was to demonstrate a repertory of embroidery stitches that might be used in the future.
In the 17th century both the function of the sampler and its appearance changed.
