boilerplate vs composition

boilerplate

noun
  • Syndicated material. 

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

  • 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. 

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

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. 

composition

noun
  • A mixture or compound; the result of composing. 

  • A work of music, literature or art. 

  • The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture. 

  • The compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force. 

  • The general makeup of a thing or person. 

  • The proportion of different parts to make a whole. 

  • An essay. 

  • an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor. 

  • The formation of compound words from separate words. 

  • Applying a function to the result of another. 

  • Typesetting. 

  • Synthesis as opposed to analysis. 

  • Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones. 

  • The act of putting together; assembly. 

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