pick up vs salvage

pick up

verb
  • To collect and detain (a suspect). 

  • To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease). 

  • To lift; to grasp and raise. 

  • To clean up; to return to an organized state. 

  • To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on. 

  • To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation. 

  • To receive calls; to function correctly. 

  • To record; to notch up. 

  • To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize. 

  • To promote somebody who was previously passed over. 

  • To collect an object, especially in passing. 

  • To answer a telephone. 

  • To take control (physically) of something. 

  • To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely. 

  • To behave in a manner that results in a foul. 

  • To restart or resume. 

  • To receive (a radio signal or the like). 

  • To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on 

  • To improve, increase, or speed up. 

  • To reduce the despondency of. 

  • To pay for. 

  • To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc. 

  • To collect a passenger. 

salvage

verb
  • To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial. 

  • to rescue. 

  • To make new or restore for the use of being saved. 

  • To perform summary execution. 

  • to put to use. 

noun
  • The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued. 

  • The money from the sale of rescued goods. 

  • Summary execution, extrajudicial killing. 

  • The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation. 

  • The ship, crew or cargo so rescued. 

  • The compensation paid to the rescuers. 

  • Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods. 

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