keep vs lease

keep

verb
  • To restrain. 

  • To supply with necessities and financially support (a person). 

  • To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret). 

  • To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain. 

  • To remain edible or otherwise usable. 

  • To remain in a state. 

  • To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate. 

  • To raise; to care for. 

  • To have habitually in stock for sale. 

  • To act as wicket-keeper. 

  • To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book. 

  • To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state. 

  • To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage. 

  • To watch over, look after, guard, protect. 

  • To maintain possession of. 

  • To record transactions, accounts, or events in. 

  • To remain faithful to a given promise or word. 

  • To continue. 

noun
  • The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case. 

  • A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place. 

  • The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance. 

  • The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. 

lease

verb
  • To release; let go; unloose. 

  • To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate. 

  • To glean. 

  • To glean, gather up leavings. 

  • To grant a lease as a landlord; to let. 

  • To gather. 

  • To pick, select, pick out; to pick up. 

  • To hold a lease as a tenant. 

noun
  • An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold. 

  • An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat. 

  • The period of such an interest. 

  • The document containing such a contract or deed. 

  • An open pasture or common. 

  • The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted. 

  • The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom. 

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