artifact vs tool

artifact

noun
  • An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation. 

  • Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element. 

  • Any object in the collection of a museum. May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made. 

  • A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or a digital image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm. 

  • An appearance or structure in protoplasm due to death, the method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life. 

  • An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin. 

  • A finding or structure in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error. 

  • An object made or shaped by human hand or labor. 

tool

noun
  • Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools. 

  • A mechanical device intended to make a task easier. 

  • A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation. 

  • A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group. 

  • Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means. 

  • A gun. 

  • A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations. 

  • An obnoxious or uptight person. 

verb
  • To equip with tools. 

  • To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather. 

  • To work very hard. 

  • To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds. 

  • To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive. 

  • To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal. 

How often have the words artifact and tool occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )