reading vs stanza

reading

noun
  • A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience. 

  • The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device. 

  • A value indicated by a measuring device. 

  • One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law. 

  • The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones. 

  • The process of interpreting written language. 

  • An event at which written material is read aloud. 

  • An interpretation. 

  • The content of a reading list. 

  • The extent of what one has read. 

  • Something to read; reading material. 

stanza

noun
  • A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse. 

  • An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP. 

  • An apartment or division in a building. 

  • A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic. 

  • A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided. 

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