beep vs percussion

beep

noun
  • The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound. 

  • A message sent to a pager device. 

  • A short, electronically produced tone. 

verb
  • To sound (something that makes a beep). 

  • To contact (someone via) a pager device. 

  • To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back. 

  • To produce a beep. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts 

percussion

noun
  • The sound so produced. 

  • The detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm. 

  • The tapping of the body as an aid to medical diagnosis. 

  • The repeated striking of an object to break or shape it, as in percussion drilling. 

  • The outer side of the hand. 

  • The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound. 

  • The section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group; in bands, may be separate from drum kits. 

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