cancel vs check out

cancel

verb
  • To kill. 

  • To cross out something with lines etc. 

  • To offset or equalize something. 

  • To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation. 

  • To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture. 

  • To invalidate or annul something. 

  • To stop production of a programme. 

  • To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused. 

noun
  • A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English). 

  • The page thus suppressed. 

  • A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message. 

  • The page that replaces it. 

  • The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. 

check out

verb
  • To die. 

  • To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision. 

  • To obtain (source code or other material) from a repository so that one can modify it and later check it back in. 

  • To prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order. 

  • To visit the oche for the last time and clear one's remaining points to win the game. 

  • To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop. 

  • To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative. 

  • To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded. 

  • To leave in a hurry. 

  • To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving. 

  • To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive. 

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