boilerplate vs cradle

boilerplate

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. 

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. 

cradle

noun
  • A suspended scaffold used in shafts. 

  • A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person. 

  • Infancy, or very early life. 

  • A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship. 

  • A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth. 

  • A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots. 

  • A case for a broken or dislocated limb. 

  • A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand. 

  • The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence. 

  • A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster. 

  • A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground. 

  • A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware. 

  • A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine. 

  • An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath. 

  • A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck. 

verb
  • To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively. 

  • To lull or quieten, as if by rocking. 

  • To transport a vessel by means of a cradle. 

  • To rock (a baby to sleep). 

  • To contain in or as if in a cradle. 

  • To nurse or train in infancy. 

  • To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force. 

  • To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping. 

  • To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle. 

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