knacker's yard vs noise

knacker's yard

noun
  • A (notional) place to send a person or object that is spent beyond all reasonable use. 

  • The area of a slaughterhouse where carcasses unfit for human consumption or other purposes are rendered down to produce useful materials such as glue. 

noise

noun
  • Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity. 

  • Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant. 

  • Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations. 

  • Any sound. 

  • Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output. 

  • Speech that is suggestive of an attitude or opinion. 

  • A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock. 

  • The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population. 

  • Rumour or complaint. 

verb
  • To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip. 

  • To make a noise; to sound. 

How often have the words knacker's yard and noise occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )