peck vs volume

peck

noun
  • A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. 

  • An act of striking with a beak. 

  • A small kiss. 

  • One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts. 

  • Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects. 

verb
  • To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument. 

  • To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). 

  • To type in general. 

  • To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements. 

  • To type by searching for each key individually. 

  • To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up. 

  • To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot. 

  • To throw. 

  • To do something in small, intermittent pieces. 

  • To kiss briefly. 

volume

noun
  • Quantity. 

  • An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk. 

  • Strength of sound; loudness. 

  • A rounded mass or convolution. 

  • The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up. 

  • A great amount (of meaning) about something. 

  • A bound book. 

  • A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement. 

  • A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia. 

  • The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide. 

  • The issues of a periodical over a period of one year. 

verb
  • To be conveyed through the air, waft. 

  • To cause to move through the air, waft. 

  • To swell. 

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