fail vs snow

fail

verb
  • To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations. 

  • Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.) 

  • To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent. 

  • To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits. 

  • To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour. 

  • To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence. 

  • To neglect. 

  • To be unsuccessful. 

  • Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly. 

adj
  • Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way. 

noun
  • A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action). 

  • A failure (condition of being unsuccessful). 

  • A failing grade in an academic examination. 

  • Poor quality; substandard workmanship. 

  • A failure (something incapable of success). 

  • A piece of turf cut from grassland. 

snow

verb
  • To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information. 

  • To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards. 

  • To have snow fall from the sky. 

noun
  • The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation. 

  • The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received. 

  • marine snow 

  • A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted. 

  • A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water. 

  • Cocaine. 

  • Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid. 

  • A shade of the color white. 

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