boilerplate vs instance

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. 

instance

noun
  • An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area. 

  • A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming. 

  • A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example. 

  • Occasion; order of occurrence. 

  • A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players. 

  • One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same. 

verb
  • To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite 

  • To cite an example as proof; to exemplify. 

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