boilerplate vs vanilla

boilerplate

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. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

vanilla

adj
  • Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic. 

  • Plain; conventional; unimaginative. 

  • Not kinky, not involving BDSM. 

  • Of vanilla. 

noun
  • The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant. 

  • The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract. 

  • Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes. 

  • Someone who is not into fetishism. 

  • The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant. 

  • A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream. 

  • An unmodded version of a game. 

  • Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals. 

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