bite vs interest

bite

noun
  • A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money. 

  • A small meal or snack. 

  • The wound left behind after having been bitten. 

  • Something unpleasant. 

  • The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. 

  • aggression 

  • The act of biting. 

  • A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful. 

  • The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another. 

  • A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper. 

  • An act of plagiarism. 

verb
  • To attack with the teeth. 

  • To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing. 

  • To behave aggressively; to reject advances. 

  • To take or keep a firm hold. 

  • To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to. 

  • To take hold; to establish firm contact with. 

  • To sting. 

  • To have significant effect, often negative. 

  • To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent. 

  • To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure. 

  • To perform oral sex on. Used in invective. 

  • To hold something by clamping one's teeth. 

  • To cut into something by clamping the teeth. 

  • To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck. 

  • To plagiarize, to imitate. 

  • To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught. 

  • To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor. 

interest

noun
  • The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. 

  • A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. 

  • An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor. 

  • Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance. 

  • Any excess over and above an exact equivalent 

  • The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively. 

  • Something or someone one is interested in. 

  • Attention that is given to or received from someone or something. 

verb
  • To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing. 

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