boilerplate vs family

boilerplate

noun
  • 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. 

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. 

family

noun
  • A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language. 

  • A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production. 

  • A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children. 

  • A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together. 

  • A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank. 

  • An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage. 

  • A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set. 

  • A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family. 

  • Members of one's family collectively. 

  • Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage. 

  • Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order. 

adj
  • Suitable for children and adults. 

  • Homosexual. 

name
  • A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption) 

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