instant vs transitive

instant

noun
  • A very short period of time; a moment. 

  • A single, usually precise, point in time. 

  • A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee. 

adv
  • At once; immediately. 

adj
  • Present; current; extant. 

  • Very quickly and easily prepared. 

  • Of the current month. 

  • Occurring immediately; immediate; present. 

  • Lasting for a short moment; momentary; short-lived. 

transitive

noun
  • A transitive verb. 

adj
  • Affected by transference of signification. 

  • Taking a direct object or objects. 

  • Making a transit or passage. 

  • Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c. 

  • Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. 

  • Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. 

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