selection vs stanza

selection

noun
  • A musical piece. 

  • A variety of items taken from a larger collection. 

  • The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ 

  • The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ 

  • The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ 

  • A set of data obtained from a database using a query. 

  • Something selected. 

  • The process or act of selecting. 

  • A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ 

  • A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation. 

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 selection and stanza occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )