appearance vs display

appearance

noun
  • A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition. 

  • The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye. 

  • Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient. 

  • The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character. 

  • An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance 

  • The way something looks; personal presence 

  • That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality 

  • Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others. 

display

noun
  • A show or spectacle. 

  • A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion. 

  • An electronic screen that shows graphics or text. 

  • The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception. 

  • A piece of work to be presented visually. 

verb
  • To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy. 

  • To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest. 

  • To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration. 

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