📄 Standard wording 🛠️ Strong steel plate

boilerplate

1 7.1

Thick strong steel plate used to make boilers and heavy machines

noun
/ˈbɔɪlərˌpleɪt/

Specialized

: placa de acero

If I used our standard boilerplate to describe what we do—a boilerplate designed for a CMO-level marketing executive—it would leave all non-CMOs with a lot of questions.

Examples

Aggregation is a lot of boilerplate in Java compared to Ruby's mixin approach.

Blog text (30)
Soldiers had added extra boilerplate to the LVT's bow and around the top of the unshielded gun, enhancing the vehicle's durability.

Academic text (2011)
C macros can generate a lot of clean boilerplate if used well—look at what Boost.org does with them.

Blog text (30)
Metro lined the old tunnel with steel boilerplate and concrete.
A neighbor solved a similar problem by cutting out mud in order to accept a couple of tons of inch-thick boilerplate he had delivered, and dropped in place by a rigger.
Soldiers had added extra boilerplate to the LVT's bow and around the top of the unshielded gun, enhancing the vehicle's durability.

Synonyms

steel plate

vsboilerplate

5 3.0

A flat piece of steel used to make or strengthen buildings and machines

is much thicker and stronger made for boilers and heavy equipment

How Thick

armor plate

Specialized

1 4.9

boilerplate

Specialized

1 7.1

plate

296 3.4

sheet

140 1.4

Surface Forms

boilerplate singular

boilerplates plural

Morphology

boilerplate = boiler + plate (transparent) = boiler + plate

The compound directly denotes a metal plate used in boilers; both components are common and the meaning is literal.

Etymology

Boilerplate first named the thick metal sheets used to build steam boilers, simply from boiler + plate. Because these plates had to hold hot steam and heavy pressure, 'boilerplate' means strong, heavy steel used in machines and ships.