placeholdern.

Brit.

/ˈpleɪsˌhəʊldə/, U.S.

/ˈpleɪsˌ(h)oʊldər/

Forms: see place n.¹ and holder n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: place n.¹, holder n.¹

Etymology: < place n.¹ + holder n.¹ Compare earlier placeholding adj. With sense 2 compare earlier placeman n.

†1. Scottish. A person who acts as deputy for another; a lieutenant, a proxy. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > deputy or substitute

depute1405

deputy1405

suffragana1450

steads bearingc1460

excuser1461

debity1467

stead-holdingc1480

debite1482

stead holderc1485

placeholder1560

surrogate1604

substitute1650

steadsman1876

understudy1882

1560 in D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 13 Committed by the place-holders of the ministrie.

1566 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 451 His deputtis and place haldaris.

c1610 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1683) 188 The Prince, who is God's place~holder.

2. A person who holds office, esp. in the government or in government service.Occasionally depreciative; cf. placeman n.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > holder of office > [noun] > under government

placeman1706

government man1747

placeholder1772

1772 W. Bolts Considerations India Affairs I. p. xx The holder, or possessor of a Jagueer.., a placeholder or pensioner.

1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris ii. 105 A youth of parts, Who longs to be a small place-holder.

1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. 238 The strength of gover[n]ment..resulted, not from its having some thousands of place-holders..at its disposal, but from the means it possessed of making its will reach everywhere.

1890 Science 10 Jan. 20 Men absorbed in and living only for pure science and high scholarship,..not mere place-holders or sterile routine pedagogues.

1952 Proc. Brit. Acad. 38 241 The ‘Party of the Crown’ in Parliament (whether its members were place-holders or not) was..the main source of royal influence on legislation.

2002 High Country News 14 Oct. 8/2 A Democratic placeholder, she mostly allowed the Legislature and lobbyists to run things.

3. A person who or thing which occupies a position on behalf of another; spec. a word, symbol, or concept being used to represent a missing quantity or operator, or to stand for any of several alternatives which may occupy its position; (Mathematics) a symbol, frequently an empty box, used in teaching to denote a missing quantity or operator in an expression.

ΚΠ

1927 Daily Express 2 June 11/6 General Averescu was originally selected by M. Bratiano to act as his place-holder temporarily while M. Bratiano lived down his unpopularity in retirement.

1945 Jrnl. Philos. 42 243 As place-holders in this region of nomenclature we shall provisionally set down behavior-agent and behavior-object.

1953 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 18 20 The predicate variables..are regarded simply as ‘place-holders’ which may be replaced by any particular predicates of individuals.

1998 College Math. Jrnl. 29 251 One suggestion is to use natural language (as opposed to letters of the alphabet or the place-holders common in elementary grades) introducing algebraic concepts.

2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Oct. a12/2 The fact that Mr. Kreczko is serving as a place-holder while a refugee crisis unfolds in Afghanistan does not reflect well on the State Department.

2003 High Country News 12 May 9/3 Exotics such as crested wheatgrass are also more effective at elbowing out invasive weeds..; they can serve as useful ‘place-holders’ until natives can be brought in.

a. Mathematics. A symbol used to indicate that no value occupies a particular place in the representation of a number; spec. a significant zero in the decimal representation of a number.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > notation of arithmetical significance

significant figure1614

significant digit1857

placeholder1928

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > collection or sequence of > other

vinculum1710

nabla1870

sign of inequality1875

second-mark1888

placeholder1928

tilde1958

1928 Science 10 Feb. 142/1 The advent of the Arabic system, with its decimal point and with zero as a ‘place-holder’, marked a new era for the natural sciences as well as for mathematics.

1950 M. A. Potter et al. Math. to Use iv. 205 Sometimes you have to annex zeros at the right of the product to act as place-holders.

1966 C. S. Ogilvy & J. T. Anderson Excursions Number Theory i. 2 Note the importance of zero as a spacer, or place-holder; 307 is not the same as 37, although 3x² + 0 + 7 is the same as 3x² + 7.

2003 Skeptical Inquirer (Nexis) 1 Mar. 42 Mathematicians began to use zero as a placeholder to replace blank spaces to distinguish between numbers such as 1, 10, 100, 1000, etc.

b. Linguistics. An element of a sentence that is required by syntactic constraints but carries little or no semantic information; spec. the anticipatory pronoun in sentences where the subject clause has been placed after the verb.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > other specific syntactic constituents

terminant1589

absolute1709

adjectival1866

word group1871

nexus1924

immediate constituent1933

case marker1941

syndeton1954

group1959

placeholder1964

1964 Jrnl. Philos. 61 257 Questions like ‘What do you believe?’.. and ‘Do you believe it?’ seem, with their pronoun place-holders, impossible to explain away.

1968 R. W. Langacker Lang. & its Struct. v. 129 One such rule is Extraposition, which moves the embedded clause to the end of the sentence and leaves behind, as a placeholder in subject position, the semantically empty form it.

1985 Fremdsprachen 29 239 Other translations are, of course, possible, e.g. with the German placeholder ‘es’ or the use of the indefinite pronoun ‘man’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	placeholder
释义	placeholdern. Brit. /ˈpleɪsˌhəʊldə/, U.S. /ˈpleɪsˌ(h)oʊldər/ Forms: see place n.¹ and holder n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: place n.¹, holder n.¹ Etymology: < place n.¹ + holder n.¹ Compare earlier placeholding adj. With sense 2 compare earlier placeman n. †1. Scottish. A person who acts as deputy for another; a lieutenant, a proxy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > deputy or substitute depute1405 deputy1405 suffragana1450 steads bearingc1460 excuser1461 debity1467 stead-holdingc1480 debite1482 stead holderc1485 placeholder1560 surrogate1604 substitute1650 steadsman1876 understudy1882 1560 in D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 13 Committed by the place-holders of the ministrie. 1566 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 451 His deputtis and place haldaris. c1610 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1683) 188 The Prince, who is God's place~holder. 2. A person who holds office, esp. in the government or in government service.Occasionally depreciative; cf. placeman n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > [noun] > under government placeman1706 government man1747 placeholder1772 1772 W. Bolts Considerations India Affairs I. p. xx The holder, or possessor of a Jagueer.., a placeholder or pensioner. 1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris ii. 105 A youth of parts, Who longs to be a small place-holder. 1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. 238 The strength of gover[n]ment..resulted, not from its having some thousands of place-holders..at its disposal, but from the means it possessed of making its will reach everywhere. 1890 Science 10 Jan. 20 Men absorbed in and living only for pure science and high scholarship,..not mere place-holders or sterile routine pedagogues. 1952 Proc. Brit. Acad. 38 241 The ‘Party of the Crown’ in Parliament (whether its members were place-holders or not) was..the main source of royal influence on legislation. 2002 High Country News 14 Oct. 8/2 A Democratic placeholder, she mostly allowed the Legislature and lobbyists to run things. 3. A person who or thing which occupies a position on behalf of another; spec. a word, symbol, or concept being used to represent a missing quantity or operator, or to stand for any of several alternatives which may occupy its position; (Mathematics) a symbol, frequently an empty box, used in teaching to denote a missing quantity or operator in an expression. ΚΠ 1927 Daily Express 2 June 11/6 General Averescu was originally selected by M. Bratiano to act as his place-holder temporarily while M. Bratiano lived down his unpopularity in retirement. 1945 Jrnl. Philos. 42 243 As place-holders in this region of nomenclature we shall provisionally set down behavior-agent and behavior-object. 1953 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 18 20 The predicate variables..are regarded simply as ‘place-holders’ which may be replaced by any particular predicates of individuals. 1998 College Math. Jrnl. 29 251 One suggestion is to use natural language (as opposed to letters of the alphabet or the place-holders common in elementary grades) introducing algebraic concepts. 2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Oct. a12/2 The fact that Mr. Kreczko is serving as a place-holder while a refugee crisis unfolds in Afghanistan does not reflect well on the State Department. 2003 High Country News 12 May 9/3 Exotics such as crested wheatgrass are also more effective at elbowing out invasive weeds..; they can serve as useful ‘place-holders’ until natives can be brought in. 4. a. Mathematics. A symbol used to indicate that no value occupies a particular place in the representation of a number; spec. a significant zero in the decimal representation of a number. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > notation of arithmetical significance significant figure1614 significant digit1857 placeholder1928 the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > collection or sequence of > other vinculum1710 nabla1870 sign of inequality1875 second-mark1888 placeholder1928 tilde1958 1928 Science 10 Feb. 142/1 The advent of the Arabic system, with its decimal point and with zero as a ‘place-holder’, marked a new era for the natural sciences as well as for mathematics. 1950 M. A. Potter et al. Math. to Use iv. 205 Sometimes you have to annex zeros at the right of the product to act as place-holders. 1966 C. S. Ogilvy & J. T. Anderson Excursions Number Theory i. 2 Note the importance of zero as a spacer, or place-holder; 307 is not the same as 37, although 3x² + 0 + 7 is the same as 3x² + 7. 2003 Skeptical Inquirer (Nexis) 1 Mar. 42 Mathematicians began to use zero as a placeholder to replace blank spaces to distinguish between numbers such as 1, 10, 100, 1000, etc. b. Linguistics. An element of a sentence that is required by syntactic constraints but carries little or no semantic information; spec. the anticipatory pronoun in sentences where the subject clause has been placed after the verb. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > other specific syntactic constituents terminant1589 absolute1709 adjectival1866 word group1871 nexus1924 immediate constituent1933 case marker1941 syndeton1954 group1959 placeholder1964 1964 Jrnl. Philos. 61 257 Questions like ‘What do you believe?’.. and ‘Do you believe it?’ seem, with their pronoun place-holders, impossible to explain away. 1968 R. W. Langacker Lang. & its Struct. v. 129 One such rule is Extraposition, which moves the embedded clause to the end of the sentence and leaves behind, as a placeholder in subject position, the semantically empty form it. 1985 Fremdsprachen 29 239 Other translations are, of course, possible, e.g. with the German placeholder ‘es’ or the use of the indefinite pronoun ‘man’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1560
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