berth vs connection

berth

noun
  • Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.) 

  • A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. 

  • position on the field of play 

  • A job or position, especially on a ship. 

  • Position or seed in a tournament bracket. 

  • A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc). 

  • A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park. 

verb
  • To use a device to bring a spaceship into its berth/dock 

  • to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth/berthing 

  • to assign a berth (bunk or position) to 

connection

noun
  • The act of connecting. 

  • A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people. 

  • sexual intercourse 

  • A kinship relationship between people. 

  • An individual who is related to oneself, through either family or business. 

  • A drug dealer. 

  • The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences. 

  • Coherence; lack of disjointedness 

  • The point at which two or more things are connected. 

  • A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service 

  • A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty. 

  • An established communications or transportation link. 

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