traffic vs transposing

traffic

noun
  • Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network. 

  • The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc. in a publication. 

  • Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people. 

  • In CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others. 

  • Commodities of the market. 

  • Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof. 

  • Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs. 

adj
  • congested 

verb
  • To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration. 

  • To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods. 

  • To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain. 

transposing

noun
  • A transposition. 

adj
  • a musical instrument that is written in a different pitch to how it sounds, often for ease of playing multiple instruments of the same family that have different ranges. 

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