attention vs regard

attention

noun
  • An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest. 

  • A technique in neural networks that mimics cognitive attention, enhancing the important parts of the input data while giving less priority to the rest. 

  • Mental focus. 

  • A state of alertness in the standing position. 

intj
  • A call for people to be quiet/stop doing what they are presently doing and pay heed to what they are to be told or shown. 

  • Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position. 

regard

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

  • 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. 

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 attention and regard occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )