adverb vs parabola

adverb

noun
  • A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses. (modifying a verb) 

  • In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine. 

  • A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses. 

verb
  • To make into or become an adverb. 

parabola

noun
  • The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable. 

  • The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix). 

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