instance vs stencil

instance

noun
  • An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area. 

  • A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming. 

  • A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example. 

  • Occasion; order of occurrence. 

  • A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players. 

  • One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same. 

verb
  • To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite 

  • To cite an example as proof; to exemplify. 

stencil

noun
  • A two-ply master sheet for use with a mimeograph. 

  • A thin sheet, either perforated or using some other technique, with which a pattern may be produced upon a surface; a utensil that contains a perforated sheet. 

  • A pattern produced using such a utensil. 

verb
  • To print with a stencil. 

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