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  2. List of placeholder names by language - Wikipedia

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    In Hebrew, the word זה (zeh, meaning 'this') is a placeholder for any noun. The term צ׳ופצ׳יק (chúpchik, meaning a protuberance, particularly the diacritical mark geresh), a borrowing of Russian чубчик (chúbchik, a diminutive of чуб chub "forelock") is also used by some speakers. [16]

  3. Placeholder name - Wikipedia

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    Placeholder name. Placeholder name on a website. Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable ...

  4. John Doe - Wikipedia

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    John Doe (male) and Jane Doe (female) are multiple-use placeholder names that are used in the United States when the true name of a person is unknown or is being intentionally concealed. [1][2][3] In the context of law enforcement in the United States, such names are often used to refer to a corpse whose identity is unknown or cannot be confirmed.

  5. List of terms referring to an average person - Wikipedia

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    This is a relatively new phenomenon that was unknown in the early 20th century. Ivanov, being derived from the most common first name, is a placeholder for an arbitrary person. In its plural form, "Ivanovs", it may be used as a placeholder for a group of people. [53] There is a military joke: The sergeant asks the rookies: "Your surnames!"

  6. Foobar - Wikipedia

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    Foobar. Foobar being used to show Transclusion. The terms foobar (/ ˈfuːbɑːr /), foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, [1] and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. [2] They have been used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose exact ...

  7. Alice and Bob - Wikipedia

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    Alice and Bob are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, [ 1 ] and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment. The Alice and Bob characters were invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman in their 1978 ...

  8. Lorem ipsum - Wikipedia

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    Using Lorem ipsum to focus attention on graphic elements in a webpage design proposal One of the earliest examples of the Lorem ipsum placeholder text on 1960s advertising. In publishing and graphic design, Lorem ipsum (/ ˌ l ɔː. r ə m ˈ ɪ p. s ə m /) is a placeholder text commonly used to demonstrate the visual form of a document or a typeface without relying on meaningful content.

  9. List of Japanese typographic symbols - Wikipedia

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    wakiten (脇点, "side dot") kurogoma (黒ゴマ, "sesame dot") shirogoma (白ゴマ, "white sesame dot") Adding these dots to the sides of characters (right side in vertical writing, above in horizontal writing) emphasizes the character in question. It is the Japanese equivalent of the use of italics for emphasis in English. ※. 2228.