grid vs montage

grid

verb
  • To mark with a grid. 

  • To assign a reference grid to. 

noun
  • The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher). 

  • The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race. 

  • An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc. 

  • A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle. 

  • A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb. 

  • A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire. 

  • A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery. 

  • A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters). 

  • A method of marking off maps into areas. 

  • A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron. 

montage

verb
  • To combine into, or depict as, a montage. 

noun
  • The art or process of doing this. 

  • A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc. 

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