boilerplate vs difference

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. 

difference

noun
  • The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result. 

  • A disagreement or argument. 

  • An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency. 

  • A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else. 

  • The quality of being different. 

  • The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia. 

  • The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B). 

  • Significant change in or effect on a situation or state. 

  • A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB). 

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