capital vs facing

capital

noun
  • The uppermost part of a column. 

  • A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it. 

  • Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system. 

  • Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures). 

  • The most important city in the field specified. 

  • An uppercase letter. 

  • Knowledge; awareness; proficiency. 

  • The chief or most important thing. 

adj
  • Of prime importance. 

  • Of or relating to the head. 

  • Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death. 

  • used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness 

  • Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation. 

  • Uppercase. 

facing

noun
  • The most external portion of exterior siding. 

  • Fabric applied to a garment edge on the underside. 

  • A powdered substance, such as charcoal or bituminous coal, applied to the face of a mould, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting. 

  • The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about. 

  • The collar and cuffs of a military coat, commonly of a different colour from the rest of the coat. 

adj
  • Diverging in the direction of travel. 

  • Positioned so as to face (in a particular direction) 

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