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means Taking a small piece of an existing recording — a drum break, a bassline, a vocal snippet — and reusing it to build a new piece of music.

from From "sample," which traces back to Old French "essample" and Latin "exemplum," meaning a representative piece taken to show the whole. The word drifted through cloth-merchants' swatches and shopkeepers' free tastes before the hip-hop and electronic producers of the 1970s-80s, armed with samplers and drum machines, repurposed it for digitally lifting a fragment of someone else's record into their own.