image vs read

image

noun
  • A mental picture of something not real or not present. 

  • A statue or idol. 

  • What a function maps to. 

  • A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.) 

  • A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency. 

  • The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something. 

  • A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others. 

  • An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture. 

verb
  • To create an image of. 

  • To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity. 

  • To represent by an image or symbol; to portray. 

  • To reflect, mirror. 

read

noun
  • A person's interpretation or impression of something. 

  • Something to be read; a written work. 

  • A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data. 

  • The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string 

  • An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”). 

verb
  • To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.). 

  • To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection. 

  • To read work(s) written by (a named author). 

  • Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term. 

  • To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones. 

  • To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way. 

  • To consist of certain text. 

  • Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan 

  • To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object) 

  • To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. 

  • To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks. 

  • To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal). 

  • Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way. 

  • To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text. 

  • To recognise (someone) as being transgender. 

  • To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from. 

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