capture vs sortie

capture

noun
  • An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem. 

  • Something that has been captured; a captive. 

  • A particular match found for a pattern in a text string. 

  • The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction. 

  • The recording or storage of something for later playback. 

verb
  • To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers). 

  • To reproduce convincingly. 

  • To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem. 

  • To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation. 

sortie

noun
  • An act of venturing out to do a task, etc. 

  • An operational flight carried out by a spacecraft involving a return to Earth. 

  • An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft. 

  • An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally. 

  • An act of trying to enter a new field of activity. 

  • An attacking move. 

  • Synonym of sally port (“an entry to or opening into a fortification to enable a sally”) 

  • A series of aerial photographs taken during the flight of an aircraft; (by extension) a photography session. 

verb
  • To carry out a sortie; to sally. 

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