boilerplate vs gate

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. 

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. 

gate

noun
  • The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git. 

  • Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. 

  • The gap between a batsman's bat and pad. 

  • A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street". 

  • Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark. 

  • The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET). 

  • The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate. 

  • A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc. 

  • A doorlike structure outside a house. 

  • A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five. 

  • The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event. 

  • Movable barrier. 

  • A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade. 

  • A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture. 

  • In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into. 

  • A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots. 

  • A way, path. 

verb
  • To keep something inside by means of a closed gate. 

  • To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating. 

  • To open a closed ion channel. 

  • To furnish with a gate. 

  • To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out. 

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