disperse vs triage

disperse

adj
  • Scattered or spread out. 

verb
  • To break up and disappear; to dissipate. 

  • To scatter in different directions. 

  • To disseminate. 

  • To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract. 

  • To distribute throughout. 

triage

noun
  • The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury). 

  • The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed. 

  • Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated. 

  • A marshalling yard, classification yard. 

  • That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans. 

verb
  • To subject to triage; to prioritize. 

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