Placeholder

Quick meaning: Placeholder is a noun meaning (graphical user interface) A non-editable caption initially displayed in a blank text box to indicate its function.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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.

Example Sentences

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

"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.

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.

Word Forms

• placeholders
• place holder

Synonyms for placeholder

Depending on context, synonyms include thingy, whatshisname.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include false, space, retention, mention, holder, marking.

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