boilerplate vs streamer

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. 

verb
  • To store (standard text) so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse. 

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. 

streamer

noun
  • Strips of paper or other material used as confetti. 

  • Any mechanism for streaming data. 

  • A subscription streaming service. 

  • A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive. 

  • A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience. 

  • A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration. 

  • In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow. 

  • A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability). 

  • A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page. 

  • One who searches for stream tin. 

  • A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis. 

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