alert vs doorbell

alert

noun
  • An alarm. 

  • A state of readiness for potential combat. 

  • A notification of higher importance than an advisory. 

verb
  • To give warning to. 

adj
  • Attentive; awake; on guard. 

doorbell

noun
  • A button that activates an electric doorbell. 

  • A device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence. It can be mechanical, directly sounding a bell, or a button that electrically sounds a chime or buzzer inside the building. 

verb
  • To ring many doorbells of (target people or an area) in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit. 

  • To ring many doorbells in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit. 

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