boilerplate vs picket

boilerplate

noun
  • Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous to ski on. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

picket

noun
  • A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls. 

  • A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake. 

  • One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function. 

  • A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself. 

  • The card game piquet. 

  • A stake driven into the ground. 

  • A sentry. 

verb
  • To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes. 

  • To tether to, or as if to, a picket. 

  • To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket. 

  • To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment. 

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