conservation vs lifeline

conservation

noun
  • Wise use of natural resources. 

  • The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources 

  • The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts 

  • The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation. 

  • Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor 

  • lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries) 

lifeline

noun
  • A means or route for transporting indispensable supplies. 

  • A particular crease in the palm. 

  • A line from the diver to a tender at the surface control point. 

  • A line to which a drowning or falling victim may cling. 

  • System or structure of vital importance to a community. 

  • A source of salvation in a crisis. 

  • On the deck of a boat, a line to which one can attach oneself to stay aboard on rough seas. 

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