pigeonhole in English

noun
1
a small recess for a domestic pigeon to nest in.
It's fortunate that they set up those pigeonholes because some of the pigeons have come home to roost.
2
a small compartment, open at the front and forming part of a set, where letters or messages may be left for individuals.
Every morning I'd check my pigeonhole in case the letter had finally arrived telling me that a distant relative had died and I was now the heir to a title and a vast estate.
verb
1
deposit (a document) into a pigeonhole.
he pigeonholed his charts and notes
noun
verb

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1. Cubbyhole definition, pigeonhole

2. ROSE TREMAIN is a difficult pigeonhole.

3. Rebecca a pigeon with no pigeonhole.

4. Rebecca is a pigeon with no pigeonhole.

5. If you can't come, leave a note in my pigeonhole.

6. Leave the report in my pigeonhole when you've read it.

7. The pigeonhole principle is a important principle in combinatorics.

8. Draft out administrative documents, keep and pigeonhole the department documents.

9. It breaks rules and conventions and is impossible to pigeonhole.

10. Captain Henry bothered Slote because he did not quite fit the pigeonhole.

11. On economics, too, the Edwards brand of populism is hard to pigeonhole.

12. You shouldn't pigeonhole people according to your first impressions of them.

13. There is a message in his pigeonhole when he returned to the hotel.

14. 18 synonyms for Categorize: assort, class, classify, group, pigeonhole, separate, sort, class

15. 15 synonyms for Assort: categorize, class, classify, group, pigeonhole, separate, sort, affiliate, consort

16. Synonyms for Conventionalize include stereotype, pigeonhole, typecast, categorise, categorize, standardise, standardize, brand, cast and characterise

17. Assist to organize and deal with the meetings, and responsible for the meeting record, pigeonhole etc.

18. Synonyms for Cubbyhole include cubicle, booth, den, snug, cubby, hole, small room, compartment, pigeonhole and slot

19. The male experience is seen as a universal experience, while the female experience is put in a different pigeonhole.

20. Synonyms: Cubbyhole; pigeonhole Hypernyms ("Cubbyhole" is a kind of): compartment (a space into which an area is subdivided)

21. You can say that the proof uses nothing beyond elementary matrix theory, repeated use of the triangle inequality, and the pigeonhole principle.

22. When your band becomes successful, people immediately try to pigeonhole you, but we're into all kinds of music - dance, rock, jazz, blues.

23. Compartment, slot, niche, recess, pigeonhole He fetched an official form from his Cubbyhole. Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition

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25. If we have a correct theory but merely prate with this complete, pigeonhole it and never put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

26. Experts say Japan tends to pigeonhole China as a place for low-end outsourcing , and is particularly fearful of intellectual-property theft in China because relatively high-cost Japanese manufacturers lose everything if their ideas are stolen .

27. Blueu 5 points 6 points 7 points 2 years ago As far as I understand the pigeonhole principle: It says if we have an infinte number of pigeons stuck into a finite number of holes, one hole has at least a infinite number of pigeons in it.

28. ‘One activity sheet requires a group of parents to Categorise a list of sex words into polite, neutral, clinical and rude/offensive.’ ‘Feist falls into the ‘credible easy listening’ pigeonhole, if you must insist on categorising her music.’ ‘I can Categorise the items on the list, which is good.’

29. ‘One activity sheet requires a group of parents to Categorise a list of sex words into polite, neutral, clinical and rude/offensive.’ ‘Feist falls into the ‘credible easy listening’ pigeonhole, if you must insist on categorising her music.’ ‘I can Categorise the items on the list, which is good.’