appropriate vs boilerplate

appropriate

adj
  • Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper. 

  • Suitable or fit; proper. 

verb
  • To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right. 

  • To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for. 

  • To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property). 

boilerplate

adj
  • Describing text or other material of a standard or routine nature. 

  • Used to refer to a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures. 

verb
  • To store (standard text) so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse. 

noun
  • A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler. 

  • Syndicated material. 

  • The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882). 

  • Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels. 

  • Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous to ski on. 

  • Formulaic or hackneyed language. 

  • A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements. 

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