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Boilerplate vs Sample - What's the difference?

boilerplate | sample |

As nouns the difference between boilerplate and sample

is that boilerplate is a sheet of steel used in the construction of a boiler while sample is a part of anything taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.

As an adjective boilerplate

is describing text of a standard or routine nature.

As a verb sample is

to make or show something similar to; to match.

boilerplate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Describing text of a standard or routine nature.
    • The contract contained all the usual boilerplate clauses.
  • Used to describe a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures.
    • A boilerplate spacecraft was used to test the rocket

    Noun

  • A sheet of steel used in the construction of a boiler.
  • The rating-plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the (UK) Boiler Explosions Act (1882)
  • A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
  • (computing) 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.
    • They put that boilerplate on all the warning labels.

    Synonyms

    * boilerplate code (computing)

    Related terms

    * boilerplated * boilerplating

    See also

    * template * hotplate * boiling plate

    sample

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A part of anything taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.
    • "I design this but for a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss." -Woodward.
  • (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
    • "...it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained." Francis Galton et al. (1883). Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.
  • (cooking) a small piece of food for tasting, typically given away for free
  • (business) a small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free
  • (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording, used to emphasize a particular point by implying a certain context.
  • (obsolete) Example; pattern.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a sample to the youngest
  • * Fairfax
    • Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight / His sample followed.

    Synonyms

    * specimen * example

    Verb

  • To make or show something similar to; to match.
  • To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wool, cloth.
  • (signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
  • To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new song.

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