What does placeholder mean?

placeholder

🇺🇸 /ˈpleɪshəʊldər/ 🇬🇧 /ˈpleɪshəʊldə(r)/

詞頻

難度

標籤 RARE

noun

A temporary stand-in for something that is missing or to be added later.

The teacher asked students to use the word 'cat' as a placeholder for the animal they wanted to describe.

老師要求學生用單詞「貓」作為他們想描述的動物的佔位符。

A word or phrase in a sentence that is necessary for grammatical structure but does not carry meaning.

In the sentence 'It is raining,' 'it' is a placeholder with no specific meaning.

在句子「正在下雨」中，「它」是一個沒有特定意義的佔位符。