dragnet vs find

dragnet

verb
  • To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect. 

  • To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water. 

noun
  • Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects. 

  • A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water. 

find

verb
  • To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate. 

  • To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that. 

  • To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into. 

  • To discover game. 

  • To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end. 

  • To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish. 

  • To determine or judge. 

  • To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. 

  • To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. 

  • Locate on behalf of another 

  • To gain, as the object of desire or effort. 

  • To point out. 

noun
  • The act of finding. 

  • Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent. 

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