reflex vs twirl

reflex

verb
  • To bend back or turn back over itself. 

  • To respond to a stimulus. 

adj
  • Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees. 

  • Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture. 

  • Produced automatically by a stimulus. 

  • Bent, turned back or reflected. 

noun
  • The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant. 

  • The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language. 

  • The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth. 

  • An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing. 

  • Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade. 

twirl

verb
  • To twist round. 

  • To pitch. 

  • To rotate rapidly. 

  • To perform a twirl. 

noun
  • A little twist of some substance; a swirl. 

  • A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette. 

  • Any rotating movement; a spin. 

  • A prison guard. 

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