original vs sample

original

noun
  • An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived. 

  • A ridgeling. 

  • A newly designed garment released by a fashion designer as part of a collection. 

  • A person with a unique and interesting personality or creative talent. 

adj
  • Pioneering. 

  • First in a series of copies or versions. 

  • Having a specified place or time as its origin. 

  • Fresh, different. 

  • Newly created. 

  • Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others. 

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 original and sample occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )