Crossword clues for boilerplate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
newspaper (and now information technology) slang for "unit of writing that can be used over and over without change," 1893, from a literal meaning (1840) "metal rolled in large, flat plates for use in making steam boilers." The connecting notion is probably of sturdiness or reusability. From 1890s to 1950s, publicity items were cast or stamped in metal ready for the printing press and distributed to newspapers as filler. The largest supplier was Western Newspaper Union.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Describing text of a standard or routine nature. 2 Used to describe a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures. n. 1 A sheet of steel used in the construction of a boiler. 2 The rating-plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the (UK) Boiler Explosions Act (1882) 3 A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements. 4 (context computing English) 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.
WordNet
n. standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories
thick plate iron used in the production of boilers
Wikipedia
Boilerplate is any text that is or can be reused in new contexts or applications without being greatly changed from the original.
Boilerplate may refer to:
Boilerplate is a fictional robot which would have existed in the Victorian era and early 20th century. It was created in 2000 by Portland, Oregon USA artist Paul Guinan. Originally intended for comics, the character became known via a faux-historical website created by Guinan, and has since appeared in other media.
A boilerplate spacecraft, also known as a mass simulator, is a nonfunctional craft or payload which is used to test various configurations and basic size, load, and handling characteristics of rocket launch vehicles. It is far less expensive to build multiple, full-scale, non-functional boilerplate spacecraft than it is to develop the full system (design, test, redesign, and launch). In this way, boilerplate spacecraft allow components and aspects of cutting-edge aerospace projects to be tested while detailed contracts for the final project are being negotiated. These tests may be used to develop procedures for mating a spacecraft to its launch vehicle, emergency access and egress, maintenance support activities, and various transportation processes.
Boilerplate spacecraft are most commonly used to test manned spacecraft; for example, in the early 1960s, NASA performed many tests using boilerplate Apollo spacecraft atop Saturn I rockets, and Mercury spacecraft atop Atlas rockets (for example Big Joe 1). The Space Shuttle Enterprise was used as a boilerplate to test launch stack assembly and transport to the launch pad. The development of NASA's Project Constellation used boilerplate Orion spacecraft atop an Ares I rocket for initial testing.
Usage examples of "boilerplate".
The second stage was a squat cylinder atop the MS-IC, bone white, with the silver-gray gumdrop shape of an unmanned boilerplate Apollo capsule at the top.
The bucking, heaving passage of the hard-sprung car over the rough roadway flung him up and down on the boilerplate surface of the hull.
Case shot hammered the boilerplate outside as a swivel gun tried to sweep the ramparts clear.
It began “This is an information message…” and finished with the usual boilerplate about the alert being based on preliminary information.
PTP is the easiest of all the programs I have considered to learn and use, and its macros enable me to set up just exactly those specialized features, like downarrows or my bibliography boilerplate, that I wantand no others.
PTP is the easiest of all the programs I have considered to learn and use, and its macros enable me to set up just exactly those specialized features, like downarrows or my bibliography boilerplate, that I want—and no others.
But then last Christmas I had this long chatty boilerplate letter, plus a blurred snapshot of her and her husband and twin bambinos, and now I was trying to get used to Miss Huth all over again.
I guessed they were boilerplate examples she'd copied from a textbook, but I could find nothing wrong with them.
It's against House rules to smoke upstairs in the bedrooms more Insurance Reasons and a week's Restriction is supposed to be mandatory, and Pat's personally a fanatic about the rule, but Gately, much as he fears the grim boilerplate on the Insurance Sheet, always pretends he doesn't see anything when he sees somebody smoking up here, since when he was a resident he actually used to sometimes smoke in his sleep he was so tense, and every once in a while will wake up and find that he has again, i.