hyphen vs suture

hyphen

noun
  • An enclosed walkway or passage that connects two buildings. 

  • Someone who belongs to a marginalized subgroup, and can therefore described by a hyphenated term, such as "German-American", "female-academic", etc. 

  • The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line. 

  • Something that links two more consequential things. 

conj
  • Used to emphasize the coordinating function usually indicated by the punctuation "-". 

suture

noun
  • An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault. 

  • Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together. 

  • A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull. 

  • A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound. 

  • A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet. 

  • The seam at the union of two margins in a plant. 

verb
  • To sew up or join by means of a suture. 

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