ambition vs pant

ambition

verb
  • To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. 

noun
  • Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people. 

  • An object of an ardent desire. 

  • A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal. 

  • A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things. 

pant

verb
  • To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. 

  • Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate. 

  • To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc. 

  • To sigh; to flutter; to languish. 

  • To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. 

  • To heave, as the breast. 

noun
  • A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation. 

  • Eager longing. 

  • Of or relating to pants. 

  • Any public drinking fountain. 

  • A pair of pants (trousers or underpants). 

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