sampled
- 1Simple past and past participle of sample.
The researchers sampled water from several points along the river.
Critics sampled dishes from each restaurant before casting their votes.
Note
A regular form that simply adds -d, since sample already ends in a silent e, and one spelling serves as both past tense and participle. Because every meaning of sample takes a direct object, the passive comes easily to all of them: water is sampled for testing, a sound wave is sampled into a discrete signal, an old recording is sampled into a new track.
The river water was sampled at dawn and sent to the lab.
That drum break has been sampled on dozens of later records.
sampled is a form of sample
sample, verb: To take or test a portion of something in order to examine it. Full entry
- Spelling
- sample → sampled: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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