floating vs snorkel

floating

noun
  • Material that floats in a liquid. 

  • The motion of something that floats. 

  • A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth. 

  • The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls. 

adj
  • That floats or float. 

  • Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift. 

  • that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme. 

snorkel

noun
  • A hollow tube, held in the mouth, or mounted on and opening into a diving mask, used by swimmers for breathing underwater. 

  • A snorkel parka. 

  • A retractable tube fitted in diesel-engine submarines to allow sufficient ventilation that the engines may be used at periscope depth. 

verb
  • To use a snorkel. 

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