boilerplate vs work

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. 

work

noun
  • Something produced using the specified material or tool. 

  • The staging of events to appear as real. 

  • The result of a particular manner of production. 

  • Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result. 

  • The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.) 

  • Ore before it is dressed. 

  • A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move. 

  • One's employer. 

  • Something on which effort is expended. 

  • effort expended on a particular task. 

  • The place where one is employed. 

  • A fortification. 

  • A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process. 

  • A literary, artistic, or intellectual production. 

  • labour, occupation, job. 

verb
  • To embroider with thread. 

  • To cause to ferment. 

  • To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for. 

  • To shape, form, or improve a material. 

  • Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients. 

  • To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence. 

  • To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage. 

  • Followed by as. Said of one's job title 

  • To behave in a certain way when handled 

  • To exhaust, by working. 

  • Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business). 

  • To ferment. 

  • To set into action. 

  • Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs. 

  • To use or manipulate to one’s advantage. 

  • To provoke or excite; to influence. 

  • To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality. 

  • To cause to work. 

  • To effect by gradual degrees; 

  • To influence. 

  • To move in an agitated manner. 

  • To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad). 

  • To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. 

  • To effect by gradual degrees. 

  • To operate in or through; as, to work the phones. 

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