exemplar vs sample

exemplar

noun
  • A copy of a book or piece of writing. 

  • A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine. 

  • A role model. 

  • A well known usage of a scientific theory. 

  • Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a model. 

  • A pattern after which others should be made; an archetype. 

  • Something typical or representative of a class; an example that typifies. 

sample

noun
  • A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen. 

  • A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free. 

  • A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population. 

  • Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording. 

  • A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free. 

verb
  • To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal. 

  • To make or show something similar to a sample. 

  • To take or to test a sample or samples of. 

  • To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music. 

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