accident vs trial

accident

noun
  • Chance; random chance. 

  • Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive. 

  • A person born from an unintended pregnancy. 

  • A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes) 

  • A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case. 

  • An instance of incontinence. 

  • An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans. 

  • Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence. 

  • An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause. 

  • A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground. 

  • A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms. 

  • An unintended pregnancy. 

  • Any chance event. 

  • casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation. 

adj
  • Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident. 

trial

noun
  • An opportunity to test something out; a test. 

  • Appearance at judicial court in order to be examined. 

  • A difficult or annoying experience, (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety 

  • A clinical trial, a research study. 

  • A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln. 

  • The trial number. 

  • A tryout to pick members of a team. 

  • An internal examination set by Eton College. 

adj
  • Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis. 

  • Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people. (See Ambai language for an example.) 

  • Pertaining to a trial or test. 

  • Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components. 

  • Triple. 

verb
  • To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it. 

  • To try out (a new player) in a sports team. 

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