Formulaic or hackneyed language.
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.
A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
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.
To store (standard text) so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse.
Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
The intension and extension of a word
A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes