printing vs symbol

printing

noun
  • Written characters that are not joined up. 

  • The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology. 

  • Material that has been printed. 

  • All the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch. 

verb
  • To inadequately carry a concealed weapon such that its silhouette is visible on the person wearing it. 

symbol

noun
  • A character or glyph representing an idea, 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 summary of a dogmatic statement of faith. 

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

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

verb
  • To symbolize. 

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