gather vs vent

gather

noun
  • A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. 

  • The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb). 

  • A gathering. 

  • The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. 

  • A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe. 

verb
  • To grow gradually larger by accretion. 

  • To bring stitches closer together. 

  • To collect molten glass on the end of a tool. 

  • To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. 

  • To haul in; to take up. 

  • To infer or conclude; to know from a different source. 

  • To congregate, or assemble. 

  • Especially, to harvest food. 

  • To collect; normally separate things. 

  • To bring parts of a whole closer. 

  • To gain; to win. 

  • To be filled with pus 

  • To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width. 

  • To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue. 

vent

noun
  • A slit in the seam of a garment. 

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

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

  • A small aperture. 

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

  • Ventriloquism. 

  • 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 gather and vent occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )