shrill vs trombone

shrill

noun
  • A shrill sound. 

verb
  • To make a shrill noise. 

adj
  • Sharp or keen to the senses. 

  • Having a shrill voice. 

  • Fierce, loud, strident. 

  • High-pitched and piercing. 

trombone

noun
  • The common European bittern. 

  • A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭). 

  • A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set. 

verb
  • To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically. 

  • To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination. 

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