kicking vs operant

kicking

noun
  • The action of the verb to kick. 

  • A great loss or defeat; licking. 

  • A violent assault involving repeated kicks. 

  • A performance art that is a mix of dance footwork, acrobatic maneuver, and martial arts kicks, drawn from a variety of disciplines. Used in stage dance choreography and staged fight choreography. 

adj
  • Actively ongoing and enjoyable. 

  • Terrific, great (of clothes) smart, fashionable. 

  • Alive, active (especially in the phrase alive and kicking). 

operant

noun
  • An operative person or thing. 

  • Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment. 

adj
  • That operates to produce an effect. 

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