compress vs spoke

compress

noun
  • A machine for compressing. 

  • A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury. 

verb
  • To abridge. 

  • To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits. 

  • To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format. 

  • To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume. 

  • To condense into a more economic, easier format. 

spoke

noun
  • A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill. 

  • A projecting handle of a steering wheel. 

  • A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim. 

  • A rung of a ladder. 

  • One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation. 

verb
  • simple past tense of speak 

  • To furnish (a wheel) with spokes. 

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