knowledge vs strain

knowledge

noun
  • Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). 

  • Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information. 

  • The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. 

  • Justified true belief 

  • The total of what is known; all information and products of learning. 

  • The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England. 

  • Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. 

  • Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science. 

  • Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc. 

strain

noun
  • A kind or sort (of person etc.). 

  • The act of straining, or the state of being strained. 

  • Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened. 

  • An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain. 

  • Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc. 

  • A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain. 

  • A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one. 

  • A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles. 

  • Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition. 

verb
  • To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force. 

  • To urge with importunity; to press. 

  • To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam. 

  • To apply a force or forces to by stretching out. 

  • To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable. 

  • To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander 

  • To percolate; to be filtered. 

  • To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain. 

  • hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly. 

  • To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning. 

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