comma vs procedure

comma

noun
  • A brief interval. 

  • A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways. 

  • In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma. 

  • The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. 

  • A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia. 

  • A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence. 

verb
  • To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas. 

procedure

noun
  • A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end. 

  • A particular method for performing a task. 

  • The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding. 

  • A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value. 

  • A surgical operation. 

  • The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks. 

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