To take something, usually a piece of communication, and create a template out of it that allows one to replace elements of the communication to change the message. For a banner advertisement, for instance, swapping out headlines or images to communicate something else.

C++ code that is written with template parameters. In particular, allows data types and software algorithms to be easily changed.

A fancy word for stealing.

The smooth chest area above the tits and below the neck.

A commonly used word by complete morons who pose as professionals and think by turning a noun into an adjective and using it before another word they will sound like they know what they are talking about. This is in fact a flimsy defense mechanism these ignorant twats incorporate to argue their case with the professional, who surprisingly does have a clue what they are talking about.

In the corporate world, templates are often provided by more senior people as a means of requesting and gathering information. The template are portrayed as an attempt to make the process easier, when in reality they make things harder.

A preconceived perception on the part of police investigators and detectives of a crime scenario or phenomenon based on past cases in which investigators became aware of a new type of scenario or phenomenon that was previously unknown to them but reaveal, being applied to a current case with similar elements and assumed to be identical to previous cases based on

past cases, statistics, personal assumptions, public opinion, hunches and other factors and then persued as such without objectivity or taking into account that although seeming similar the scenario may not be identical.