reaction vs verb

reaction

noun
  • An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event. 

  • A transformation in which one or more substances is converted into another by combination or decomposition. 

  • An icon or emoji appended to a posted message by a user to express their feeling about it. 

  • Reactionary politics; a period in which reactionary thought or politics is resurgent or dominant. 

verb

noun
  • An action as opposed to a trait or thing. 

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

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

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 reaction and verb occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )