cushion vs packing

cushion

noun
  • A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling on, resting one's head on etc. 

  • a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective. 

  • A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf. 

  • The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back. 

  • A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston. 

  • An engraver's pad. 

  • Money kept in reserve. 

  • The pillow used in making bone lace. 

  • A pad supporting a woman's hair. 

  • The rubber of an electrical machine. 

  • The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself. 

verb
  • To furnish with cushions. 

  • To absorb or deaden the impact of. 

  • To seat or place on, or as on a cushion. 

  • To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion. 

packing

noun
  • Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging. 

  • The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack. 

  • Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight. 

  • The forming of players into a scrum. 

  • The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey. 

  • Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications. 

  • A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging. 

  • The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts. 

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