automatic vs boilerplate

automatic

noun
  • A car with automatic transmission. 

  • A semi-automatic pistol. 

adj
  • An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns. 

  • Capable of operating without external control or intervention. 

  • Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls. 

  • Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted. 

  • Done out of habit or without conscious thought. 

  • Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc. 

  • Having one or more finite-state automata. 

boilerplate

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

  • 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. 

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. 

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