recruit vs starter

recruit

noun
  • A hired worker 

  • A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier. 

  • A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population. 

  • A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement. 

verb
  • To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc. 

  • To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population. 

  • To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body. 

  • To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster 

starter

noun
  • A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment. 

  • A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game. 

  • A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy. 

  • A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal. 

  • A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process. 

  • A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp. 

  • The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish. 

  • A dog that rouses game. 

  • The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag. 

  • A starting pitcher. 

  • An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine. 

  • Someone who starts, or who starts something. 

  • Something with which to begin; a first property, etc. 

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