borrow vs plot

borrow

verb
  • To feign or counterfeit. 

  • To adopt (an idea) as one's own. 

  • To lend. 

  • To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. 

  • To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time. 

  • To secure the release of (someone) from prison. 

  • To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it. 

  • To adopt a word from another language. 

  • To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc. 

  • To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green. 

  • To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone). 

  • In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result. 

noun
  • A borrow pit. 

  • Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant. 

  • In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code. 

plot

verb
  • To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc). 

  • To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc). 

  • To trace out (a graph or diagram). 

noun
  • An area or land used for building on or planting on. 

  • A plan; a purpose. 

  • A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device. 

  • Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy. 

  • Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue. 

  • Attractive physical attributes of characters involved in a story, originating from ironic juxtaposition with the original meaning (course of the story). 

  • A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. 

  • The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. 

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