banner vs bill

banner

verb
  • To display as a banner headline. 

  • To adorn with a banner. 

adj
  • Exceptional; very good. 

noun
  • A large piece of cloth with a slogan, motto, or emblem carried in a demonstration or other procession or suspended in some conspicuous place. 

  • The title of a newspaper as printed on its front page; the nameplate; masthead. 

  • A type of administrative division in Inner Mongolia and Tuva, made during the Qing dynasty; at that time, Outer Mongolia and part of Xinjiang were also divided into banners. 

  • A cause or purpose; a campaign or movement. 

  • A military or administrative subdivision. 

  • A type of advertisement on a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content. 

  • The military unit under such a flag or standard. 

  • The principal standard of a knight. 

  • One who bans something. 

  • A flag or standard used by a military commander, monarch or nation. 

  • Any large sign, especially when made of soft material or fabric. 

bill

verb
  • To advertise by a bill or public notice. 

  • To dig, chop, etc., with a bill. 

  • To charge; to send a bill to. 

  • to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness 

noun
  • A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note. 

  • The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal. 

  • Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes. 

  • A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.) 

  • A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.) 

  • The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak). 

  • A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. 

  • The bell, or boom, of the bittern. 

  • A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice. 

  • Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff. 

  • A piece of paper money; a banknote. 

  • One hundred dollars. 

  • A pickaxe, or mattock. 

  • A beak-like projection, especially a promontory. 

  • A set of items presented together. 

  • Somebody armed with a bill; a billman. 

  • A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law. 

  • A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods 

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