boilerplate vs heading

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. 

heading

noun
  • Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc. 

  • The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward. 

  • A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard. 

  • The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading) 

  • The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof. 

  • A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. 

  • The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch. 

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