expression vs pluck

expression

noun
  • (manufacturing) The act of pressing or squeezing out. 

  • A specific blend of whisky. 

  • A colloquialism or idiom. 

  • The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc. 

  • An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols. 

  • The process of translating a gene into a protein. 

  • A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion. 

  • A particular way of phrasing an idea. 

  • A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value. 

  • The tone of voice or sound in music. 

  • emotional involvement or engagement in a text read aloud rendered by the voice of the reciter or the reader 

pluck

noun
  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • Cheap wine. 

verb
  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

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