part vs sample

part

noun
  • A distinct element of something larger. 

  • A unit of relative proportion in a mixture. 

  • The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece. 

  • Share, especially of a profit. 

  • A section of a document. 

  • Duty; responsibility. 

  • Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand". 

  • A group inside a larger group. 

  • In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds. 

  • The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. 

  • A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense. 

  • A fraction of a whole. 

  • Position or role (especially in a play). 

  • 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink. 

  • A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region. 

  • A room in a public building, especially a courtroom. 

adj
  • Fractional; partial. 

verb
  • To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion. 

  • To leave (an IRC channel). 

  • To cut hair with a parting; shed. 

  • To leave the company of. 

  • To divide in two. 

  • To be divided in two or separated; shed. 

  • To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder. 

adv
  • Partly; partially; fractionally. 

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