request vs statement

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). 

statement

noun
  • A declaration or remark. 

  • A presentation of opinion or position. 

  • An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call. 

  • A document that summarizes financial activity. 

verb
  • To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs. 

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