doorbell vs phone

doorbell

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

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

noun
  • 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. 

  • A button that activates an electric doorbell. 

phone

verb
  • To call (someone) using a telephone. 

noun
  • A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc. 

  • A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language. 

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