account vs shoehorn

account

noun
  • 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 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. 

  • An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. 

  • 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. 

shoehorn

noun
  • Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium. 

  • A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place. 

verb
  • To use a shoehorn. 

  • To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to. 

  • To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious. 

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