capping vs ending

capping

noun
  • The act of removing one's hat as a token of respect. 

  • The process of covering a borehole in order to seal an oil well. 

  • The selling of a security etc. close to an expiry date. 

  • The conversion of a polyhedron into a stellated polyhedron by raising a pyramid on each face. 

  • The recording of a television broadcast to one's computer. 

  • The method of capitalizing every other word in social media titling and tagging to improve readability over unmixed case. Example: #CAPPINGimprovesREADABILITY. 

  • Lying or exaggerating. 

  • the leached upper part of a body or rock that still contains disseminated sulphide mineral deposit. 

ending

noun
  • A termination or conclusion. 

  • The last part of something. 

  • The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs"). 

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