loan vs request

loan

verb
  • To lend (something) to (someone). 

noun
  • An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use. 

  • A lonnen. 

  • A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest). 

  • The permission to borrow any item. 

  • The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan. 

request

verb
  • To ask (somebody) to do something. 

  • To ask for (something). 

noun
  • 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. 

  • A formal message requesting something. 

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