collector vs scout

collector

noun
  • A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection. 

  • One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. 

  • A person who is employed to collect payments. 

  • A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers 

  • A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses 

  • The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor. 

  • A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. 

scout

noun
  • A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team. 

  • A fighter aircraft. 

  • Term of address for a man or boy. 

  • An act of scouting or reconnoitering. 

  • A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States. 

  • A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry. 

  • A fielder in a game for practice. 

  • A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University. 

  • A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images. 

  • The guillemot. 

  • A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin. 

  • A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground. 

verb
  • To reject with contempt. 

  • To scoff. 

  • To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement. 

  • To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search. 

  • To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout. 

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