appropriate vs shearing

appropriate

adj
  • Suitable or fit; proper. 

  • Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper. 

verb
  • To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right. 

  • To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for. 

  • To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property). 

shearing

adj
  • Tending to cut or tear. 

noun
  • Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions. 

  • The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. 

  • The act or operation of reaping. 

  • The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. 

  • The material cut off in this way. 

  • The process of preparing shear steel; tilting. 

  • The act or operation of dividing with shears. 

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