account vs regard

account

noun
  • An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. 

  • A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done. 

  • A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake. 

  • Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system. 

  • A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. 

  • A bank account. 

  • Profit; advantage. 

  • A record of events; a relation or narrative. 

  • Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement. 

verb
  • To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. 

  • To consider that. 

  • To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. 

  • To estimate, consider (something to be as described). 

  • To establish the location for someone. 

  • To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). 

  • To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. 

regard

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

  • A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. 

  • A steady look, a gaze. 

  • Slang for retard, a very bad stock trader. 

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

verb
  • To look at; to observe. 

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

  • To have to do with, to concern. 

  • To face toward. 

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