alarm vs cool

alarm

verb
  • To keep in excitement; to disturb. 

  • To give (someone) notice of approaching danger 

  • To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert. 

  • To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear. 

  • To call to arms for defense 

noun
  • An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time. 

  • A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention. 

  • A sudden attack; disturbance. 

  • Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. 

  • A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. 

  • Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise. 

cool

verb
  • To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. 

  • To lose heat, to get colder. 

  • To make cooler, less warm. 

  • To kill. 

  • To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. 

noun
  • A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness. 

  • A calm temperament. 

  • The property of being cool, popular or in fashion. 

adj
  • Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem. 

  • Calmly audacious. 

  • Allowing or suggesting heat relief. 

  • Very interesting or exciting. 

  • (followed by with) Able to tolerate; to be fine with. 

  • Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others. 

  • (of an act or situation) annoying, irritating. 

  • (of a pair of people) holding no grudge against one another; having no beef. 

  • Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold. 

  • Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself. 

  • Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. 

  • In fashion and fancy, part of or befitting the most leading trends and habits of the in crowd; originally hipster slang. 

  • Of a color, in the range of violet to green. 

  • Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical. 

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