cricket vs surface

cricket

noun
  • A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection. 

  • A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions. 

  • A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts). 

  • An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore. 

  • A wooden footstool. 

  • An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs. 

  • A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. 

  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

  • In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication. 

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

surface

noun
  • The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid. 

  • Outward or external appearance. 

  • The outside hull of a tangible object. 

  • The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space. 

verb
  • To apply a surface to something. 

  • To make (information or facts) known. 

  • To become known or apparent; to appear or be found. 

  • To provide something with a surface. 

  • To bring to the surface. 

  • To come out of hiding. 

  • To work a mine near the surface. 

  • To rise to the surface. 

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