proceeding vs task

proceeding

noun
  • A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction 

  • An event or happening; something that happens 

  • A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society. 

  • The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction 

  • Progress or movement from one thing to another. 

  • Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit. 

task

noun
  • A process or execution of a program. 

  • Any piece of work done. 

  • A difficult or tedious undertaking. 

  • An objective. 

  • A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. 

verb
  • To charge, as with a fault. 

  • To assign a task to, or impose a task on. 

  • To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax 

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