potato vs symbol

potato

noun
  • Metaphor for a person or thing of little value. 

  • A camera that takes poor-quality pictures. 

  • A mentally handicapped person. 

  • A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking. 

  • The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant. 

  • An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size. 

adj
  • Underpowered; low-end. 

symbol

noun
  • A thing considered the embodiment of a concept or object. 

  • A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index. 

  • A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information. 

  • An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code. 

  • A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object. 

  • A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith. 

  • The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes. 

verb
  • To symbolize. 

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