express vs vent

express

noun
  • An express rifle. 

  • An express office. 

  • That which is sent by an express messenger or message. 

  • A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly. 

  • A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another. 

  • A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier. 

verb
  • To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA. 

  • To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit. 

  • To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk). 

  • To translate messenger RNA into protein. 

adj
  • Truly depicted; exactly resembling. 

  • Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops. 

  • Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied. 

  • Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type. 

adv
  • Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops. 

vent

noun
  • The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge. 

  • An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows. 

  • Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet. 

  • A small aperture. 

  • Ventriloquism. 

  • A slit in the seam of a garment. 

  • Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance. 

  • An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. 

  • The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates. 

  • A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration. 

  • In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet. 

verb
  • To allow gases to escape. 

  • To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca. 

  • To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation. 

  • To express a strong emotion. 

  • To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort. 

  • To sell; to vend. 

  • To allow to escape through a vent. 

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