going vs staircase

going

noun
  • The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next. 

  • Conditions for advancing in any way. 

  • The whereabouts (of something). 

  • The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc. 

  • Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways. 

  • Progress. 

  • A departure. 

verb
  • Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly. 

adj
  • Likely to continue; viable. 

  • Current, prevailing. 

  • Available. 

staircase

noun
  • A connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell. 

  • A flight of stairs; a stairway. 

  • A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next. 

verb
  • To modify (a signal, a graph, etc.) to reduce a smooth curve to a series of discrete steps. 

  • To increase one's share in a co-ownership. 

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