ending vs lead-in

ending

noun
  • A termination or conclusion. 

  • The last part of something. 

  • The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs"). 

lead-in

noun
  • A short phrase that begins the caption of a photograph. 

  • An introduction; something that leads into the beginning of something. 

  • A region of data at the beginning of a compact disc, holding the table of contents. 

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