asking vs request

asking

noun
  • A request, or petition. 

  • The marriage banns. 

  • The act or process of posing a question or making a request. 

adj
  • That asks; that expresses a question or request. 

request

noun
  • A formal message requesting something. 

  • A message sent over a network to a server. 

  • Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence). 

  • Condition of being sought after. 

verb
  • To ask (somebody) to do something. 

  • To ask for (something). 

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