background vs van

background

verb
  • To put in a position that is not prominent. 

  • To gather and provide background information (on). 

noun
  • One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past. 

  • Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history. 

  • The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows). 

  • A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context. 

  • A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground). 

  • A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user. 

adj
  • Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system. 

van

noun
  • A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved. 

  • A shovel used in cleansing ore. 

  • A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain. 

  • A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus. 

  • A wing with which the air is beaten. 

  • An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van. 

verb
  • To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel. 

  • To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses). 

  • Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van). 

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