boilerplate vs type

boilerplate

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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). 

  • 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. 

type

noun
  • Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics. 

  • A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. 

  • Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to. 

  • A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.) 

  • A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived. 

  • An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment. 

  • A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token. 

  • The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin. 

  • Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size. 

  • A symbol, emblem, or example of something. 

  • An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc. 

  • Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical. 

  • An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times. 

  • A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type. 

  • A blood group. 

verb
  • To determine the blood type of. 

  • To categorize into types. 

  • To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard. 

  • To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. 

  • To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. 

  • To put text on paper using a typewriter. 

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