Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who holds an office or place, especially:
- n. One who acts as a deputy or proxy.
- n. One who holds an appointed office in a government.
- n. In a mathematical or logical expression, a symbol that may be replaced by the name of any element of a set.
- n. In the decimal form of number, a digit that is not significant.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person authorized to act for another
- n. a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set
Etymologies
- place + holder. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The default WordPress Theme features a blue "header" at the top with the title placeholder of your site.”
“What the heck are the Goobermen made of? backtrack a little in the archives, you'll see that the title placeholder for the Clayin Saga has finally been filled.”
“• Insert a new slide with a title placeholder and a bulleted list placeholder (Title and Text).”
“The political machine already had a short-term placeholder in the Senate.”
“Now all they needed was a long-term placeholder, and everything had been arranged.”
“Every girl's favorite part of the tea was that they each had a small silver bell, which served as their name placeholder, which they were instructed to ring when they needed anything.”
“So, again, I don't want to use the word placeholder but we obviously need to plan for additional environmental assuming environmental regulations.”
“But then, she told Bob and Mark that, "It is certainly a possibility to consider that kind of strategy there," where she would appoint someone as a "placeholder" - someone who would NOT run for the office in a special election, so that other people could get out there and "duke it out" and fight for the seat without anyone having the advantage of having kept the seat warm.”
“Huddleston’s site is still in placeholder mode, so if you’re interested check back on it later.”
Meet Lou Huddleston (R Cand, NC-08). - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“And I read to him from the Normal Book, telling him all the broad and wide and far-reaching definitions of the word normal, the way people use it as a placeholder, a code word, a Band-Aid.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘placeholder’.
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Emblematics
Sigility: avatars and representative figures. Types of symbols: academic, religious, abstract.
avatar, representative, emblem, sigil, semiotics, personification, totemic, creaturism, placeholder, iconolatry, egregore, thoughtform and 24 more...
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Be holders
Behold! (and becomingholders!!) We all are stakeholders? Where's the steak? No beef!
lienholder, placeholder, householder, policyholder, candleholder, officeholder, ticket holder, stockholder, cigarette holder, withholder, record-holder, stakeholder and 39 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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