cancel vs ice

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. 

ice

verb
  • To murder. 

  • To become ice; to freeze. 

  • To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc. 

  • To make icy; to freeze. 

  • To put out a team for a match. 

  • To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing. 

  • To cool with ice, as a beverage. 

noun
  • Water in frozen (solid) form. 

  • An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny. 

  • A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar. 

  • One or more diamonds and jewelry, especially blood diamonds. 

  • Any substance having the appearance of ice. 

  • Money paid as a bribe. 

  • The area where a game of ice hockey is played. 

  • Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market. 

  • Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide. 

  • Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant. 

  • Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs. 

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