advice vs report

advice

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

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

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

  • Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. 

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

report

noun
  • A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject). 

  • An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager. 

  • Reputation. 

  • The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion. 

verb
  • To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. 

  • To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). 

  • To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). 

  • To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy). 

  • To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. 

  • To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. 

  • To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). 

  • To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker. 

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