boilerplate

Meanings

Plural: boilerplates

Noun

• standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories
• thick plate iron used in the production of boilers
• 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).
• A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
• Syndicated material.
• Standard text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.
• A standard piece of program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor.
• Formulaic or hackneyed language.
• Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous for skiing.

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.

Synonyms

boilerplate code

Related Words

boiling plate, canned response, hotplate, pro forma, template

Anagrams of boilerplate