cistern vs container

cistern

noun
  • A cisterna. 

  • The vessel surrounding the condenser in a steam engine. 

  • In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank. 

  • A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use. 

container

noun
  • Someone who contains; something that contains. 

  • A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself. 

  • An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects. 

  • A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods. 

  • An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported. 

  • Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components. 

  • Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state. 

  • A file format that can hold various types of data. 

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