dissident vs dropout

dissident

noun
  • One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion. 

  • Sometimes Dissident: in the kingdom of Poland, the name for Christians not part of the Roman Catholic Church. 

  • A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws. 

adj
  • In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant. 

dropout

noun
  • Someone who has opted out of conventional society. 

  • A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units. 

  • One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so. 

  • The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels. 

  • Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course 

  • A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data. 

  • Momentary loss of an electronic signal. 

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