collect vs crowd

collect

verb
  • To come together in a group or mass. 

  • To get; particularly, get from someone. 

  • To infer; to conclude. 

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

  • To gather together; amass. 

  • To collect payments. 

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

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

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

adv
  • With payment due from the recipient. 

crowd

verb
  • To press together or collect in numbers 

  • To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster. 

  • To press forward; to advance by pushing. 

  • To push, to press, to shove. 

  • To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way. 

  • To fill by pressing or thronging together 

  • To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. 

  • To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram. 

noun
  • A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. 

  • A fiddle. 

  • A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest. 

  • The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar. 

  • Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. 

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