anthology vs selection

anthology

noun
  • An assortment of things. 

  • A collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors. 

  • A work or series containing various stories with no direct relation to one another. 

  • The study of flowers. 

selection

noun
  • A variety of items taken from a larger collection. 

  • The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ 

  • The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ 

  • The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ 

  • A set of data obtained from a database using a query. 

  • A musical piece. 

  • Something selected. 

  • The process or act of selecting. 

  • A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ 

  • A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation. 

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