attribute vs verb

attribute

noun
  • A word that qualifies a noun. 

  • That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident. 

  • A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated. 

  • An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention. 

  • A characteristic or quality of a thing. 

  • An option or setting belonging to some object. 

verb
  • To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc. 

  • To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone. 

verb

noun
  • A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being. 

  • A named command that performs a specific operation on an object. 

  • An action as opposed to a trait or thing. 

verb
  • To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb. 

  • To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb. 

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