demand vs sort

demand

noun
  • An order. 

  • An urgent request. 

  • The desire to purchase goods and services. 

  • The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price. 

  • A forceful claim for something. 

  • A requirement. 

  • More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval. 

verb
  • To require of someone. 

  • To claim a right to something. 

  • To ask forcefully for information. 

  • To request forcefully. 

  • To issue a summons to court. 

sort

noun
  • An act of sorting. 

  • A type. 

  • An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence. 

  • A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style. 

  • Manner; form of being or acting. 

  • A general type. 

  • A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.). 

  • A good-looking woman. 

verb
  • To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree. 

  • To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. 

  • To fix (a problem) or handle (a task). 

  • To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically. 

  • To attack physically. 

  • To geld. 

  • To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts. 

  • To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. 

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