crosscut vs truncate

crosscut

verb
  • To cut across something. 

  • To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain. 

  • To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes. 

noun
  • A crosswise cut. 

  • A shortcut. 

  • A crosscut saw. 

  • A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another. 

  • An instance of filmic crosscutting. 

truncate

verb
  • To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off. 

  • To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits. 

  • To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal). 

adj
  • Truncated. 

  • Having an abrupt termination. 

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