cancel vs collect

cancel

verb
  • To invalidate or annul something. 

  • To cross out something with lines etc. 

  • To offset or equalize something. 

  • To kill. 

  • 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 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. 

collect

verb
  • To infer; to conclude. 

  • To get; particularly, get from someone. 

  • To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation. 

  • To gather together; amass. 

  • To come together in a group or mass. 

  • To collect payments. 

  • To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle). 

adv
  • With payment due from the recipient. 

noun
  • The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer. 

adj
  • To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment. 

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