What's the difference between boilerplate and code?

Boilerplate


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe it's left him knackered, but when we talk in the backroom of an ad hoc campaign office in the small agricultural town of Thrapston, he answers most questions using standard-issue candidate's boilerplate.
  • (2) He answered a series of boilerplate queries from the thin media corps at ringside, delivering a blend of straight talk and curious bon mots.
  • (3) There was also criticism of the media who gave rolling coverage to Trump’s rally in Florida on Saturday, which Oliver called “pointless” and filled with “boilerplate Trump: the media is fake, Chicago is a nightmare, I’m the greatest.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Last week, Oliver called Trump a “ pathological liar ” in a scalding episode which marked the start of the show’s fourth season.
  • (4) Witness the impact of an otherwise boilerplate broadcast by the Prince of Wales last December that made headlines : “Prince Charles warns of return to the ‘dark days of the 1930s’ in Thought for the Day message.” Or consider the reflex response to reports that Donald Trump was to maintain his own private security force even once he had reached the White House.
  • (5) Rudd talks cheerfully but steadily, as if he's neither reciting boilerplate nor overly impressed by his career.
  • (6) For once, the grand parliamentary boilerplate appeared apt.
  • (7) During part of the talks open to media, Xi and Lew spoke in boilerplate diplomatic language about drawing on shared strengths to bolster bilateral ties.
  • (8) He lied about opposing the Iraq war , criticized Obama’s 2011 withdrawal and repeated his now-boilerplate advocacy of stealing Iraq’s oil – a measure that he evidently believes would require a minimal force presence, despite the certainty that the well-armed locals might have a problem with their principal source of wealth being plundered by a foreign power.
  • (9) The public boilerplate, as it so often does, hides a difficult and often acrimonious relationship.
  • (10) Every presidential aspirant issues that boilerplate – as it elides an explanation of what the candidate thinks is worth fighting for – but Clinton’s long public record, which she uses as a selling point against Trump, gives reason to doubt it.
  • (11) Indeed, in the boilerplate language of financial prospectuses, past results are no guarantee of future results; and there are already investment models showing that non-FFC funds deliver better proceeds.
  • (12) Instead, for months, we’ve heard almost nothing from the administration beyond a couple boilerplate, lukewarm expressions of “concern” as the death toll has mounted over a year and a half.
  • (13) There was lots of New Labour boilerplate about "the values of the mainstream majority", but I don't think Brown manage to meld this into a vision of the future that will resonate with the public.
  • (14) And, too, because no matter how much practice you have at blathering and how much boilerplate you can regurgitate, unscripted moments can be as rough on cable heads as on politicians.
  • (15) A 50-minute meeting might have produced little of substance – Modi reiterated India's longstanding complaints about terrorists launched from Pakistani soil to wreak havoc on its interests and citizens, Sharif uttered platitudes about an "historic opportunity" – but even the banality of the diplomatic boilerplate could not hide an unexpected sense of optimism.
  • (16) It introduces the biography of the candidate, striking the usual boilerplate themes of a middle class yet aspirational childhood, a love of baseball and a close knit neighbourhood where Weiner's parents worked hard and raised their kids.
  • (17) After three weeks of campaigning, she appears to have passed the point where she can answer questions with much more than awkward boilerplate, but I have to ask: are Diane James and the Farage army a worry?
  • (18) A lawyer he consulted provided him with a boilerplate employee handbook, which didn’t have much to say about diversity, and told him that he could write a more extensive handbook when the company was bigger.
  • (19) For instance, a boilerplate attack on the Home Secretary ended with a passage that could have come from a Daily Express leader: "Michael Howard said he was building six tough new prisons.

Code


Definition:

  • (n.) A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
  • (n.) Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since MIRD Committee has not published "S" values for Tl-200 and Tl-202, these have been calculated by a computer code and are reported.
  • (2) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.
  • (3) Reiteration VII (within protein coding regions of genes US10 and US11) and reiteration IV (within introns of genes US1 and US12) were stable between the isolates (group 1).
  • (4) The mboIIR gene specifies a protein of 416 amino acids (MW: 48,617) while the mboIIM gene codes for a putative 260-residue polypeptide (MW: 30,077).
  • (5) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
  • (6) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
  • (7) This gene, termed cbbE', codes for a putative surface protein of approximately 55 kDa, termed the E' protein.
  • (8) The bursa of Fabricius, thymus glands and spleen of chickens were also shown to express mRNA coding for ANP.
  • (9) The mitochondrial genome codes for 13 proteins which are located in the respiratory chain.
  • (10) Dilemmas of trust, confidentiality, and professional competence highlight the limits of professional ethical codes.
  • (11) The coding sequence for Spirulina platensis acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS, EC 4.1.3.18) is shown to be contained within a 4.2 Kb ClaI fragment (ilvX) that has been cloned from a recombinant lambda library.
  • (12) When very large series of strains are considered, the coding can be completely done and printed out by any computer through a very simple program.
  • (13) Cells transfected with either the first or second construct and selected for the TK+ phenotype were then tested for TK induction after superinfection with HSV-1(F) delta 305, containing a deletion in the coding sequences of the TK gene, and viruses containing, in addition, a ts lesion in the alpha 4 regulatory protein (ts502 delta 305) or in the beta 8 major DNA-binding protein (tsHA1 delta 305).
  • (14) The ps1A1 polypeptide was coded for by a 5.5-kbp mRNA which others have shown also codes for PS IRC polypeptide ps1A2.
  • (15) The sequence of the coding region was derived from the published amino acid sequence of the protein (Tanaka, M., Haniu, M., Yasunobu, K.T., and Mayhew, S. G. (1974) J. Biol.
  • (16) An average size chromomere of the polytene X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster contains enough DNA in each haploid equivalent strand to code for 30 genes, each 1,000 nucleotides long.
  • (17) Patient care data for patients treated at the medical center are first recorded on paper charts and then coded and transferred to computer.
  • (18) The delta qa-1S strain exhibits constitutive expression of the qa genes supporting earlier evidence that the qa-1S gene codes for a repressor.
  • (19) DNA fragments coding for signal peptides with different lengths (28, 31, 33 and 41 amino acids from the translation initiator Met) were prepared and fused with the E. coli beta-lactamase structural gene.
  • (20) The major RNA species present in the purified mitochondrial fraction of the Walker carcinoma were investigated in order to determine which of them are located in the mitochondria and coded by the organelle DNA.

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