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Definitions: Sample |
SampleAdjective1. Serving as typical examples; "a sample question". Noun1. A small part of something intended as representative of the whole. 2. Items selected from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population. 3. All or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class. Verb1. Take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sample" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Sample |
Aerospace | In statistics, a group of observations selected from a statistical population by a set procedure. See random sample.Samples may be taken at random or systematically. The sample is taken in an attempt to estimate the population. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The value of a particular characteristic of a signal at a chosen instant. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A part of a population consisting of one or more sampling units selected and examined as representative of the whole. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A portion or piece of a whole. A selected subset of a population or subset of whatever is being studied. For example, in a study of people the sample is a number of people chosen from a larger population [see population]. An environmental sample (for example, a small amount of soil or water) might be collected to measure contamination in the environment at a specific location. (references) |
Labor | A listing of all units in the universe, from which a sample can be drawn. (references) |
Metallurgy | A group of items or individuals, taken from a layer collection or population which serves to provide information needed for assessing a characteristic(or characteristics)of the population, or a basis for action on the population or the process that produced it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Representative fraction of body of material; removed by approved methods; guarded against accidental or fraudulent adulteration; and tested or analyzed to determine the nature, composition, percentage of specified constituents, etc., and possibly their reactivity. Bulk samples are large (several tons), so taken as to represent the ore for the purpose of developing a suitable treatment. Channel samples, cores, chips, grab, pannings, stope samples, etc., are small ones-- made primarily to establish the value of the ore reserve b. A section of core or a specific quantity of drill cuttings that represents the whole from which it was removed. CF:borin. (references) |
Statistics | A set of individual units, drawn from some definable population of units, and generally a small proportion of the population, to be used for a statistical examination of which the findings are intended to be applied to the population. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It has distinct meanings in:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sample."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SAS | English | Sample array system | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SampleSynonyms: sample distribution (n), taste (v), try (v), try out (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conformity | Example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation; exemplification, illustration, case in point; object lesson; elucidation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Just a sample. (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) I'll need a sample. (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Urine sample! (Lethal Weapon 4; writing credit: Shane Black; Jonathan Lemkin) Here's a vitamin sample for you. Vitamin E. Now that is great for the old pecker. (Silver Streak; writing credit: Colin Higgins) Venkman, get a stool sample. (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) | |
Lyrics | Sample a look back you look and find ("Fight the Power"; performing artist: Public Enemy) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sample People (2000) The Best of Tim Sample (1987) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | 90-liter Bodmar water sample bottle going down.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Dredge sample on deck - all hands want to see what's there On the bow of the SURVEYOR.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Storing sample material in a vile prior to storing in liquid nitrogen.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Taking an air sample for analysis with a Keeling flask.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Crop consultant draws a soil sample early in the crop year to test nitrogen availability in the soil. This late spring nitrogen test is meant to decide whether and how much nitrogen the growing crop needs for optimum production; only the amount of nitroge.Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Wendell Jones, NRCS District Conservationist, and landowner and Johnson County SWCD Commissioner, use the soil probe to take a soil sample on farm near Iowa City, IA. [Slide 97CS3064].Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | Wendell Jones, NRCS, DC and Ed Williams, landowner and Johnson County SWCD Commissioner, using the soil probe to take a soil sample on Williams' farm near Iowa City, Iowa.Credit: USDA. |  | Oscar Stevens (left) and Craig Odell (right), NRCS, District Conservationist discuss the benefits of composting chicken manure. Stevens is collecting a sample for nutrient analysis.Credit: USDA. |
 | Water Quality Sample, Passive Treatment, bio-reactorSoutheastern IdahoUpper Snake River District.Credit: Steve Moore. |  | Some sample artifacts on display.Credit: Unknown. |
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 | A sample repeated of a group of men shouting. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Miguel de Cervantes | By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Don't sample meat before it is fully cooked. (references) | |
In this procedure, a small blood sample is drawn. (references) | ||
This procedure to remove a tissue sample is called a biopsy. (references) | ||
Business | Until recently, sample processing and storage were not paid due attention. (references) | |
The research sample consists of over 28,000 families, a total of 77,000 individuals. (references) | ||
Approvals may be requested by letter with the specifications of the equipment or a sample. (references) | ||
Children | Pakistan | According to UNICEF figures, a nationwide sample of children in grade five revealed that only 33 percent could read with comprehension, while a mere 17 percent were able to write a simple letter. (references) |
Angola | The institute reported that in a sample from Catchiungo, the number of street children assisted by the institute doubled from 7,890 in 2000 to 14,000 during the year, and that more than 90 percent of these children suffer from malnutrition. (references) | |
Economic History | China | This involves not only sample product testing but also factory audits. (references) |
Human Rights | Argentina | After the lower court ruled in September 2000 that she must provide a blood sample, she was arrested and held overnight for noncompliance. (references) |
Argentina | Legal battles continued in the case of a suspected daughter of a couple who disappeared; she has refused to provide a blood sample for DNA analysis to prove her true identity. (references) | |
Argentina | The woman says that she will submit the sample voluntarily only if her adoptive parents, being held on charges of illegal adoption and substitution of identity, are given immunity. (references) | |
Political Economy | KUWAIT | Recurring perishable imports can be cleared and taken to the importer's premises after a sample has been submitted to the municipality for quality testing. (references) |
Trade | Spain | Otherwise, a customs duty is likely to be levied on the sample. (references) |
Philippines | In lieu of product sample, a colored picture of each product may be submitted. (references) | |
Travel | Israel | Major hotels will likely offer to make photocopies of a sample card if you need additional cards at short notice. (references) |
Italy | Goods imported as samples may be imported only in quantities constituting a sample according to normal commercial usage. (references) | |
Taiwan | Food: Chinese cuisine ranks among the best in the world, and there is no better place to sample it in all its infinite variety than in Taiwan. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | One third of a sample of 29 domestic workers reported sexual harassment at work, according to the report. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sample" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.90% of the time. "Sample" is used about 4,621 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.9% | 4,339 | 2,270 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.3% | 245 | 19,065 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.78% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,621 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sample" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sample | Last name | 6,000 | 2,212 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "sample": area sample ♦ average sample run length ♦ blood sample ♦ choose from sample ♦ divided sample ♦ encoded sample ♦ free sample ♦ grab sample ♦ inbound voice sample parity ♦ judgement sample ♦ linear sample plot ♦ outturn sample ♦ proportional sample ♦ purposive sample ♦ quantized value of a sample ♦ random sample ♦ random sample survey ♦ reconstructed sample ♦ representative sample ♦ sample and hold ♦ sample book ♦ sample check ♦ sample distribution ♦ sample indicator line ♦ sample of no commercial value ♦ sample out ♦ sample passage ♦ sample rate ♦ Sample Size ♦ sample strip ♦ sample to ♦ simple sample ♦ Stein's two sample procedure ♦ stratified sample ♦ systematic sample ♦ take a blood sample ♦ take a blood sample from smb. ♦ take a sample ♦ test sample ♦ two stage sample ♦ undisturbed sample ♦ unstratified sample ♦ up to sample. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sample": sample-aided, sample-and-hold, sample-based, sample-books, sample-charging, sample-laden, sample-replace, sample-site, sample-survey, sample-tracking. | |
Ending with "sample": post-sample, sub-sample. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
free sample | 9,914 |
sample resume | 7,726 |
cover letter sample | 3,944 |
sample | 1,958 |
free resume sample | 1,586 |
candy sample | 1,227 |
sample letter of recommendation | 1,200 |
sample business plan | 1,122 |
sample resignation letter | 1,075 |
sample letter | 877 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sample"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | monster (monster, specimen). (various references) | |
Albanian | shembull (case, example, exemplar, exponent, instance, lead, mirror, model, number, paradigm, piece, rule), shabllon (cartoon, jig, Mold, mould, sampler, stencil, template, templet), provoj (assay, attest, demonstrate, deprive, essay, establish, experience, fit on, make good, manifest, presume, pretend, prove, savor, savour, show, substantiate, suffer, taste, test, try, try on, try out, validate, venture, witness), mostër (model, pattern, prill, sampling, snip, specimen), model (cast, classic, classical, copybook, example, exemplar, fashion, figure, make, model, Mold, mould, norm, paradigm, paragon, pattern, pilot, sampler, shape, style, type), krahasoj (check, compare, confront, contrast, equalize, like, liken, mate, weigh up), kampion (champ, champion, pattern, whiz, whizz). (various references) | |
Arabic | نموذج (byword, copy, example, exemplar, instance, layout, mock up, model, norm, paradigm, pattern, piece, run, specimen, standard, token, type), عينة من الشعر, عينة (pattern, piece, snip, specimen, specious, swab, taking), عاين (observe, survey), ذاق (savor, savour, taste), النموذج (masterpiece), إختار عينة, أخذ عينة من الدم, أخذ عينة الدم, أخذ عينة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | за мостра, изпитвам (assay, condition, essay, examine, experience, feel, proof, prove, question, quiz, see, test, try, undergo), избирам образец, пример (calendar, case, example, exemplar, illustration, instance, lead, model, paradigm, pattern, piece, type), правя анализ (analyse, analyze, assay), проба (assay, attempt, audition, experiment, hallmark, proof, taste, tentative, test, trial, try, try on, try out), пробен (experimental, tentative, wildcat), дегустирам (taste), за проба, шаблон (former, lute, matrix, model, mould, pattern, rut, screed, stencil, template, templet), модел (creation, example, make, mirror, model, mould, pattern, shape, sitter, style, type), мостра (exhibit, pattern, scantling, show card, specimen, standard, swatch), мострен, опитвам (attempt, essay, experiment, partake, taste, try), образец (copy, epitome, example, exemplar, form, ideal, mirror, model, mould, norm, paradigm, paragon, pattern, piece, sampling, scantling, shape, specimen, swatch, type), вземам проба от, вкусвам от, пробвам (attempt, essay, experiment, give it a try, try, try on). (various references) | |
Chinese | 標本 (specimen, the root cause and symptoms of a disease), 樣本 (specimen), 樣" (specimen), ". (various references) | |
Czech | vzorek (pattern, specimen), příklad (example, illustration, instance, instancy, piece, specimen), ochutnat (touch), koštovat. (various references) | |
Danish | mønster (configuration, design, drafting, draught, drawing, objects, pattern, picture, plan, sketch, specimen, texture). (various references) | |
Dutch | proefstuk (specimen, test, test sample, trial), monster (aliquot, monster, parcel, specimen, try-out, try-out die), specimen (specimen), proef (attempt, experiment, manipulation, specimen, test, trial). (various references) | |
Esperanto | specimeno (specimen). (various references) | |
Farsi | مسطوره (Scantling, Specimen), نمونه نشان دادن , نمونه گرفتن , نمونه (Example, Instance, Model, Module, Parable, Paradigm, Piece, Progenitor, Specimen), واحدنمونه , خوردن (Abut, Eat, Feed, Grub, Have, Hurtle, Partake, Take), الگو (Mould, Pattern, Standard, Type), ازمون (Examination, Shibboleth, Test, Try). (various references) | |
Finnish | näyte (proof, specimen), otos (random sample). (various references) | |
French | spécimen, prélèvement (sampling), échantillon (test sample). (various references) | |
Frisian | staal (specimen), meunster (monster, specimen). (various references) | |
German | Probe (assay, attempt, audition, pattern, practice, prob, probation, probational, proof, rehearsal, rehearse, specimen, test, test specimen, trial, tryoutUS), Muster (cinema rush, design, drafting, draught, drawing, figure, model, motif, objects, paragon, pattern, patterns, plan, prototype, rush, skeleton, sketch, specimen, texture, type), Stichprobe (random sample, random sample survey, spot check, spot test), Probestück (specimen), abtasten (explore, feel, Frisk, palpate, read off, sampling, scan, scanning, sense, size up, sound out, strobe, suss out, to read off, to sense, trace), abfragen (call up, call-up, extract, interrogate, interrogation, polling, query, quiz, request, retrieval, scan, service interrogation, supplementary service interrogation, test, to inquire, to interrogate, to request). (various references) | |
Greek | δείγμα (handout, specimen, swatch, token), γεύομαι (mouthwash, savor, savour, taste), δοκιμάζω (assay, attempt, essay, feel out, prove, taste, test, try, try on, try out). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "ו'מ" (example, exemplar, illustration, instance, lead, model, norm, prototype, specimen, type). (various references) | |
Hungarian | minta (design, fantasy, formula, model, motif, muster, norm, paradigm, paragon, pattern, prill, probe, shape, standard), mutató (cursor, evidential of sg, hand, index, indicative, indicator, indicatory, needle, pointer, table), kóstoló (earnest, snack, taster, tidbit, titbit). (various references) | |
Indonesian | cuplik, contoh (exemplification, exponent, model, pattern, specimen). (various references) | |
Italian | campione (adept, champ, champion, defender, expenses book, foreman, master, masters, measurement standard, outgoings book, pattern, piece, specimen, standard, test specimen, virtuoso), esemplare (copy, exemplar, exemplary, issue, model, one off, paragon, paragons, pattern, specimen, standard, subject, type). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 抽出 (abstract, educe). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しきょうひ" (specimen), しりょう (careful consideration, data, departed soul, feed, fodder, ghost, historical records, materials, spirit of a dead person, test piece, thought), ひながた (a miniature, model, prescribed form, specimen), サンプル , け"たい (boredom, combination, combined use, fatigue, filling two positions, give one's body to a hospital for medical research, languor, serving two purposes, specimen, sword belt, weariness), みほ", ちゅうしゅつ (abstract, educe). (various references) | |
Korean | 견본 (specimen). (various references) | |
Manx | sampleyr (case, example, instance, model, paradigm, paragon, sampler, specimen), sambyl (copy, example, pattern, specimen), blaystey, blasstey (relish, savour). (various references) | |
Norwegian | mønster (pattern, specimen). (various references) | |
Papiamen | muestra (specimen). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amplesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amostra (devon, devonspinner, example, pattern, specimen, test sample, test specimen, trial), espécime (example, pattern, representative, scantling, specimen). (various references) | |
Romanian | specimen (example, specimen), probã (alloy, argument, assay, attempt, audition, check up, control, event, examination, exemplar, go, instance, pattern, probation, proof, specimen, test, trial, try, verification, witness), proba (demonstrate, prove, task, try), mostrã (example, model, muster, pattern, specimen), lua o mostrã din, exemplu (comparison, example, exemplar, instance, lead, model, paradigm, pattern, piece), exemplar (copy, exemplar, exemplarily, exemplary, number, paradigmatic, pattern, specimen), eşantion (specimen), degusta (degust, relish, taste), da un exemplu (give an example, set an example), şablon (cliché, commonplace, form, humdrum, jig, model, mule, pass, pattern, stencil), încerca (aim, assay, attempt, bother, endeavor, endeavour, essay, experience, fit on, make, offer, taste, tempt, test, try, undergo, undertake). (various references) | |
Russian | выборка (samplings), образец (archetype, copy, example, exemplar, exponent, form, model, norm, paradigm, paragon, pattern, piece, prill, quick example, representative, scantling, shape, specimen, standard), модель (form, make, model, pattern, replica, sampler, shape, simular, simulator), замерять, замер, проба (analysis, assay, audition, essay, plate-mark, prill, probe, proof, purity, reaction, sampling, specimen, standard, tasting, test, try out, tryout, try-out), производить выборку, пример (example, instance, pattern). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzorak (model, pattern, scantling, specimen, swatch), uzeti uzorak, probati (essay, rehearse, taste, test, try, try on), proba (assay, audition, demonstration, essay, probe, rehearsal, scantling, shakedown, test, trial), primer (classic, example, exemplar, instance, instancy, paradigm), praviti probu, mustra (pattern, swatch). (various references) | |
Spanish | muestra (demonstration, exhibition, exposition, fair, gesture, indication, model, paragons, pattern, piece, point, sampling, sign, specimen, swatch, taste, token). (various references) | |
Swedish | provbit (example, pattern, specimen, test specimen), stickprov (cluster sampling, random sample, sampling, spot check), smakprov, sampel (random sample), prov (audition, display, experiment, prill, probation, proof, sign, specimen, test, test sample, token, trial, try out). (various references) | |
Thai | เอาเป็นตัวอย่าง, ตัวอย่าง (example, lesson), ซึ่งเป็นตัวอย่าง. (various references) | |
Turkish | tipik davranış, tipik özellik, tatmak (die, experience, extract, know, taste, try), numune (model, pattern, specimen), mostra, model (archetype, copybook, design, exemplar, fashion plate, form, guide, lay figure, manikin, mannequin, model, norm, pattern, poser, shape, sitter, specimen, standard, stencil, type, type specimen, version, vintage), göstermelik (claptrap, false, for effect, for show, nominal, ostensible, pious, rose water, specimen), eşantiyon (giveaway, pattern), denemek (assay, attempt, chance, condition, essay, experience, experiment, give it a shot, give it a try, have a go, have a go at, have a shy at, have a stab at, have a try, prove, put, put to the touch, take a chance, take a whack at, test, try, try on, try out), örneklemek (exemplify, illustrate), örnek olarak denemek, örnek (copy, example, exemplar, exemplary, exemplification, guide, illustration, instance, lead, model, norm, object lesson, pattern, precedent, reference, representative, sampling, specimen, trial, type, type specimen, version), çeşit (assortment, cast, class, denomination, description, genre, ilk, item, kind, range, sort, species, stripe, style, variety). (various references) | |
Turkmen | nusga (copy, specimen). (various references) | |
Ukranian | шаблон (jig, sampler, template), відбирати зразки, вибірка, зразок (archetype, assay, cast, example, exemplar, exponent, model, nonesuch, norm, number, paragon, pattern, sampler, specimen, swatch), підбирати (choose, clean up, gather in, gather up), пробувати (assay, attempt, nibble, offer, prove, sip, try), приклад (club, example, illustration, instance, lead, paradigm, rifle butt, witness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mẫu h ng, mẫu (crumb, design, model, scantling, specimen). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | delibatio, exemplo, exemplum, exemplumque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sample": sampled, sampler, samplers, samples. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sample": ensample, resample, subsample. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sample": ensamples, resampled, resamples, subsampled, subsamples. (additional references) | |
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"Sample" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: essemple, sammle, Sampe, sampl, sapele, Sapley, semble, semple, sempleah, sempre, simmple, smalp, Stampfle, Zamalek. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sample" (pronounced sa"mpul) |
| 5 | -a" m p u l | ample, example, trample. |
| 4 | -m p u l | crumple, dimple, pimple, rumple, Semple, simple, temple. |
| 3 | -p u l | Appel, apple, archetypal, businesspeople, carpal, chapel, congresspeople, couple, craftspeople, cripple, decouple, disciple, episcopal, fipple, gospel, grapple, hopple, laypeople, maple, metacarpal, multiple, municipal, newspeople, nipple, oedipal, opal, papal, people, pineapple, Popple, principal, principle, pupil, purple, quadruple, quintuple, ripple, salespeople, scalpel, scruple, spokespeople, staple, steeple, subprincipal, supple, tipple, topple, townspeople, triple, uncouple. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: maples. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-m-p-s" | |
-1 letter: almes, ample, lames, lamps, lapse, leaps, males, maple, meals, pales, palms, peals, plasm, pleas, psalm, salep, sepal, spale. | |
-2 letters: ales, alme, alms, alps, amps, apes, apse, elms, lame, lamp, lams, laps, lase, leap, leas, maes, male, maps, meal, mels, mesa, pale, palm, pals, pams, pase, peal, peas, plea, sale, salp, same, samp, seal, seam, slam, slap, spae, spam. | |
-3 letters: ale, alp, als, amp, ape, asp, elm, els, ems, lam, lap, las, lea, mae, map, mas, mel, pal, pam, pas, pea, pes, sae, sal, sap, sea, sel, spa. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, am, as, el, em, es, la, ma, me, pa, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m-p-s" | |
+1 letter: amplest, ampules, empales, impales, lampers, palmers, psalmed, sampled, sampler, samples. | |
+2 letters: amplexus, ampoules, bedlamps, clampers, empalers, empanels, emplaces, emplanes, ensample, episomal, examples, impalers, impanels, impearls, impleads, lampases, lampreys, lempiras, malposed, maniples, maypoles, megalops, misplace, misplead, neoplasm, palmiest, pleonasm, plumages, rampoles, resample, samplers, templars, tramples. | |
+3 letters: ampleness, amplifies, blaspheme, blasphemy, eclampsia, ectoplasm, endoplasm, ensamples, exemplars, headlamps, helpmates, imperials, lamperses, lampshell, malaperts, manciples, mayapples, misplaced, misplaces, misplayed, mispleads, neoplasms, palmettes, palmettos, pamphlets, plainsmen, plantsmen, plasmagel, playmates, playtimes, pleonasms, plumerias, preambles, premolars, resampled, resamples, someplace, stampless, subsample, supermale, sympetaly, templates, temporals, tramplers. | |
+4 letters: amphiboles, amplexuses, amplidynes, amplifiers, amplitudes, bipedalism, blasphemed, blasphemer, blasphemes, campaniles, campestral, champleves, deutoplasm, diplomates, eclampsias, ectoplasms, endoplasms, ephemerals, episomally, impassable, impassible, impersonal, implanters, implicates, lampooners, lampshells, megalopses, melphalans, menopausal, metaplasia, misapplied, misapplies, misplanned, misplanted, mispleaded, monoplanes, multiphase, nameplates, nemophilas, omphaloses, palimonies, palimpsest, palmettoes, palmitates, penultimas, placements, plasmagels, plasmagene, plasmodesm, plasmolyze, playmakers, polyamides, polyamines, polygamies, polymerase, presumable, presumably, prolamines, psalmodies, psalterium, pulmonates, reimplants, resampling, semipostal, slipstream, smallpoxes, specialism, spermatial, stepfamily, streetlamp, subsampled, subsamples, supermales, symphyseal, verapamils. | |
+5 letters: accomplices, amphibolies, amphiphiles, amplenesses, aspergillum, bipedalisms, blasphemers, blasphemies, blaspheming, blasphemous, camelopards, compassable, compatibles, compensable, complainers, compliances, complicates, deutoplasms, diplomacies, ectoplasmic, elecampanes, employables, endoplasmic, esemplastic, flameproofs, hemiplegias, hemophilias, homoplasies, impalements, impassively, imperialism, imperialist, implausible, lepromatous, leprosarium, lifemanship, manipulates, marlinspike, maxillipeds, megalopolis, mesopelagic, metacarpals, metaplasias, metaplastic, methyldopas, mispleading, misshapenly, nucleoplasm, palimpsests, palindromes, palmerworms, palmistries, parallelism, parliaments, paternalism, peristomial, permillages, peroxisomal, personalism, petrolatums, phlebograms, pilgrimages, planimeters, plasmagenes, plasmalemma, plasminogen, plasmodesma, plasmodesms, plasmolyses, plasmolyzed, plasmolyzes, platemakers, plebeianism, pleinairism, polygamizes, polymathies, polymerases, primalities, proclaimers, promulgates, scopolamine, semipopular, semipostals, sempiternal, slipstreams, specialisms, spermicidal, streetlamps, superfamily, supernormal, sympetalies, sympetalous, timepleaser, trampolines, ultrasimple. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6D 70 6C 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -- .--. .-.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101101 01110000 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a m p l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006D 0070 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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