advice vs pointer

advice

noun
  • An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful. 

  • A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions 

  • Counseling to perform a specific legal act. 

  • In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange 

  • In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document. 

  • Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. 

  • In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached. 

pointer

noun
  • A tip, a bit of advice. 

  • Anything that points or is used for pointing. 

  • A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored. 

  • A teacher's pointer, pointing stick, a rod with an arrow. 

  • A needle-like component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device. 

  • A breed of hunting dog, trained to point out game. 

  • An icon that indicates the position of the pointing device, such as a mouse. 

  • Something worth a given number of points. 

  • Something that gives a point (sharp end) to something. 

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