associate vs bird

associate

noun
  • A companion; a comrade. 

  • One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance. 

  • A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner. 

  • One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit). 

  • Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague. 

  • A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges. 

adj
  • Joined with another or others and having lower status. 

  • Having partial status or privileges. 

  • Following or accompanying; concomitant. 

verb
  • To connect or join together; combine. 

  • To join as a partner, ally, or friend. 

  • To endorse. 

  • To join in or form a league, union, or association. 

  • To spend time socially; keep company. 

  • To be associative. 

  • To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination. 

bird

noun
  • A man, fellow. 

  • A chicken or turkey used as food. 

  • A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive. 

  • The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended. 

  • A kilogram of cocaine. 

  • A penis. 

  • An airplane. 

  • A girlfriend. 

  • A yardbird. 

  • A prison sentence. 

  • A satellite. 

  • Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer. 

  • A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs. 

verb
  • To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds. 

  • To transmit via satellite. 

  • To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment. 

  • To bring into prison, to roof. 

  • To seek for game or plunder; to thieve. 

adj
  • Able to be passed with very little work; having the nature of a bird course. 

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