probe vs regard

probe

verb
  • To explore, investigate, or question 

  • To insert a probe into. 

noun
  • A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling. 

  • A small, usually unmanned, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings. 

  • Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information. 

  • An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans. 

  • An investigation or inquiry. 

  • a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy 

  • Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure 

  • An act of probing; a prod, a poke. 

  • A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it. 

  • Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc. 

regard

verb
  • To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. 

  • To look at; to observe. 

  • To have to do with, to concern. 

  • To face toward. 

noun
  • A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. 

  • The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held. 

  • A steady look, a gaze. 

  • Slang for retard, a very bad stock trader. 

  • One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. 

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