contact vs isolation

contact

noun
  • The act of touching physically; being in close association. 

  • The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact. 

  • The establishment of communication (with). 

  • A contact lens. 

  • The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. 

  • A device designed for repetitive connections. 

  • Contact juggling. 

  • A nodule designed to connect a device with something else. 

  • Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication. 

verb
  • To establish communication with something or someone. 

  • To touch; to come into physical contact with. 

isolation

noun
  • The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine) 

  • The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries). 

  • The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture 

  • The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people. 

  • The act of isolating. 

  • A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions. 

  • A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought. 

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