boilerplate vs manufacture

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. 

manufacture

noun
  • Anything made, formed or produced; product. 

  • The process of such production; generation, creation. 

  • The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale. 

  • A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms. 

verb
  • To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point. 

  • To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery. 

  • To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use. 

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