decline vs stack

decline

verb
  • To move downwards, to fall, to drop. 

  • To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain. 

  • To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun. 

  • To cause to decrease or diminish. 

  • To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. 

  • To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw. 

  • To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like. 

  • To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play. 

  • To become weaker or worse. 

  • To recite all the different declined forms of (a word). 

noun
  • A weakening. 

  • Downward movement, fall. 

  • A reduction or diminution of activity. 

  • The act of declining or refusing something. 

  • A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road. 

stack

verb
  • To crash; to fall. 

  • To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.). 

  • To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern. 

  • To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars. 

  • To operate cumulatively. 

  • To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner. 

  • To take all the money another player currently has on the table. 

  • To have excessive ink transfer. 

  • To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack. 

noun
  • A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system. 

  • A fall or crash, a prang. 

  • A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land. 

  • A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. 

  • A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits. 

  • A large amount of an object. 

  • An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture). 

  • A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea. 

  • A vertical drainpipe. 

  • Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books. 

  • A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last. 

  • An extensive collection 

  • The amount of money a player has on the table. 

  • The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag. 

  • A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³) 

  • A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch. 

  • A smokestack. 

  • A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves. 

  • A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity. 

  • A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions. 

  • A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape. 

  • A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed). 

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