decoration vs sight

decoration

noun
  • The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. 

  • Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. 

  • The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host 

  • Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation. 

sight

noun
  • The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view. 

  • Mental view; opinion; judgment. 

  • The ability to see. 

  • Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad. 

  • Something seen. 

  • A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained. 

  • A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target. 

  • In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening. 

  • a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative. 

verb
  • To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually. 

  • To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of. 

  • To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight. 

  • To observe though, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating. 

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