mistake vs polish

mistake

noun
  • An error; a blunder. 

  • A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place. 

verb
  • To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another. 

polish

verb
  • To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite. 

  • To apply shoe polish to shoes. 

  • To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface. 

  • To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding. 

  • To refine; remove imperfections from. 

noun
  • Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation. 

  • Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess. 

  • A substance used to polish. 

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