dash vs particle

dash

noun
  • A slight admixture. 

  • Violent strike; a whack. 

  • The dashboard of a Tumblr user. 

  • A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon. 

  • Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar). 

  • A rushing or violent onset. 

  • A short run, flight. 

  • Ostentatious vigor. 

  • The longer of the two symbols of Morse code. 

  • A bribe or gratuity; a gift. 

  • A dashboard. 

  • A hyphen or minus sign. 

verb
  • To leave or depart. 

  • To complete hastily. 

  • To ruin; to destroy. 

  • To dishearten; to sadden. 

  • To sprinkle; to splatter. 

  • To run quickly or for a short distance. 

  • To destroy by striking (against). 

  • To draw or write quickly; jot. 

  • To throw violently. 

intj
  • Damn! 

particle

noun
  • A little bit. 

  • A part of speech which cannot be inflected. 

  • A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something. 

  • Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle. 

  • A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm). 

  • In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity. 

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