sample vs scrap

sample

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

  • 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. 

scrap

noun
  • Leftover food. 

  • Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades. 

  • A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. 

  • A fight, tussle, skirmish. 

  • The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat. 

  • The smallest amount. 

  • Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk. 

  • A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips. 

  • A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang. 

verb
  • To discard. 

  • To make into scrap. 

  • to fight 

  • To stop working on indefinitely. 

  • To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks. 

  • To dispose of at a scrapyard. 

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