flirt vs overtake

flirt

noun
  • A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion 

  • Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person. 

  • A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something. 

  • A brief shower (of rain or snow). 

  • An act of flirting. 

verb
  • To blurt out. 

  • To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling. 

  • To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. 

  • To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with. 

  • To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions. 

adj
  • Flirtatious. 

overtake

noun
  • An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver. 

verb
  • To become greater than something else 

  • To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away 

  • To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic). 

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