prospect vs view

prospect

noun
  • The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook. 

  • Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect. 

  • A hope; a hopeful. 

  • The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation. 

  • A position affording a fine view; a lookout. 

  • A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape. 

  • Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team. 

  • The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable. 

  • A potential client or customer. 

  • The façade of an organ. 

verb
  • To search, as for gold. 

  • To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location. 

view

noun
  • The range of vision. 

  • A wake. 

  • The act of seeing or looking at something. 

  • A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases. 

  • A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory. 

  • An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user. 

  • Something to look at, such as scenery. 

  • The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with 

  • A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch. 

  • A point of view. 

  • A mental image. 

  • An intention or prospect. 

verb
  • To regard in a stated way. 

  • To look at. 

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