pigeon-hole

suomi-englanti sanakirja

pigeon-hole englanniksi

  1. (alternative form of).

  2. (RQ:Jonson Bartholomew Fair)

  3. (RQ:Burke Noble Lord) Sieyès has vvhole neſts of pigeon-holes full of conſtitutions ready made, ticketed, ſorted, and numbered; ſuited to every ſeaſon and every fancy; (..)

  4. (RQ:Sala Ship Chandler)

  5. (RQ:Twain Innocents Abroad) You can rent a whole block of these pigeon-holes for fifty dollars a month.

  6. (RQ:Hardy Return of the Native) 'Dear Clym, I wonder how your face looks now?' she said, gazing abstractedly at the pigeon-hole, which admitted the sunlight so directly upon her brown hair and transparent tissues that it almost seemed to shine through her.

  7. (RQ:New English Dictionary)|page=8|volume2=VII|entry2=Pigeon-hole|pos=sb|page2=846|column2=3|passage=This has been fitted with blocks of pigeon-holes, 1029 in number, for the reception of the alphabetically arranged slips.

  8. (RQ:Fry Liar) At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.

  9. (RQ:New English Dictionary)|volume2=VII|entry2=Pigeon-hole|pos=v|page2=847|column2=1|passage=I had proposed to pigeon-hole the walls of the drawing-room for the reception of the dictionary material.

  10. (RQ:London Daughter) Not that he pigeon-holed Frona according to his inherited definitions. He refused to classify her at all. He did not dare.

  11. (quote-book)

  12. (RQ:Wodehouse Eggs) to one side for the moment and temporarily pigeon-holing the children of Adullam," interrupted Myrtle, "what are we going to do about this?"

  13. (quote-journal)