boilerplate vs sheaf

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. 

sheaf

noun
  • A sheave. 

  • A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four. 

  • A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer. 

  • An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets. 

  • A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. 

  • Any collection of things bound together. 

verb
  • To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves 

  • To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves. 

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