boilerplate vs die

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. 

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. 

die

noun
  • A mold for forming metal or plastic objects. 

  • A device for cutting into a specified shape. 

  • The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth. 

  • An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals. 

  • A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.) 

  • Any small cubical or square body. 

  • An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance. 

  • An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit. 

verb
  • followed by of; general use 

  • To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. 

  • followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from) 

  • To be mortified or shocked by a situation. 

  • To fail to evoke laughter from the audience. 

  • To yearn intensely. 

  • To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct. 

  • To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality". 

  • To become spiritually dead; to lose hope. 

  • followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences 

  • To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. 

  • To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). 

  • followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes 

  • To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote. 

  • To become indifferent; to cease to be subject. 

  • To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. 

  • To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated. 

  • To abort, to terminate (as an error condition). 

  • To lose a game. 

  • To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead. 

  • followed by with as an indication of manner 

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