join vs scatter

join

verb
  • To accept, or engage in, as a contest. 

  • To unite in marriage. 

  • To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables. 

  • To come into the company of. 

  • To come together; to meet. 

  • To become a member of. 

  • To connect or combine into one; to put together. 

  • To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose. 

noun
  • An intersection of data in two or more database tables. 

  • The act of joining something, such as a network. 

  • The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨. 

  • An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect. 

scatter

verb
  • To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow. 

  • To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse. 

  • Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks. 

  • To deflect (radiation or particles). 

  • To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals. 

  • To distribute loosely as by sprinkling. 

  • To be dispersed upon. 

noun
  • The act of scattering or dispersing. 

  • A collection of dispersed objects. 

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