英和和英

語源

From place +‎ holder.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈpleɪsˌhoʊldɚ/

名詞

placeholder (plural placeholders)

1. Something used or included temporarily or as a substitute for something that is not known or must remain generic; that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later.

   This data is a placeholder, so you'll want to include the real numbers as soon as you have them.

   • 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 4 January 2013:

     As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.

   • 2013 February 14, Scott Tobias, “A Good Day To Die Hard [film review]”, in The AV Club‎, archived from the original on 10 March 2016:

     "I'm on vacation," [Bruce] Willis grumbles several times throughout A Good Day To Die Hard, in what counts as the film's sole running joke, a lame placeholder until he arrives at the big "yippee-ki-yay" punchline.

2. (graphical user interface) A non-editable caption initially displayed in a blank text box to indicate its function.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:thingy, Thesaurus:whatshisname

参考

• greek, greeking (noun)
• lorem ipsum

Further reading

• placeholder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia