twine vs untie

twine

verb
  • To wind about; to embrace; to entwine. 

  • To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander. 

  • To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally. 

  • To weave together. 

  • To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body. 

  • To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine. 

noun
  • A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string. 

  • Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations. 

  • The act of twining or winding round. 

  • A twist; a convolution. 

untie

verb
  • To become untied or loosed. 

  • In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality. 

  • To resolve; to unfold; to clear. 

  • To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of. 

  • To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. 

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