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pigeonhole englanniksi
(senseid) One of an array of open compartments for housing pigeons in a dovecote or loft.
A hole or opening in a door or wall for a pigeon to pass through.
(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.
(senseid) One of an array of open compartments in a desk, set of shelves, etc., used for sorting and/or storing letters, papers, or other items.
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(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; (..)
(RQ:Sala Ship Chandler)
(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.
(senseid) One of an array of open compartments for receiving mail and other messages at a college, office, etc.
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(RQ:Fry Liar) At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.
A compartment or cubicle in a room or other place, especially one which is (excessively) small.
(RQ:Twain Innocents Abroad) You can rent a whole block of these pigeon-holes for fifty dollars a month.
(quote-book)
An opening in a ship for passing equipment such as an oar or rigging through.
(senseid) A form of stocks with openings for restraining a person's hands or feet; also, one of the openings in the device.
(RQ:Jonson Bartholomew Fair)
(RQ:Fielding Covent-Garden Tragedy)
(senseid) A notional category or class into which someone or something is placed.
(RQ:Guardian)
(RQ:Moxon Mechanick Exercises) And if he (quote-gloss) ''Sets'' too VVide, and he chance to ''Set'' a VVord to tvvo tvvice over, he may be forc'd to make ''Pidgeon-holes'' e're he come to a ''Break'', (..)
To construct pigeonholes ''(noun (senseno) or (senseno))'' in (a place); also, to subdivide (a place) into pigeonholes.
(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.
To put (letters, papers, or other items) into pigeonholes or small compartments; also, to arrange or sort (items) by putting into pigeonholes.
(RQ:Hawthorne French and Italian Notebooks)
To aside (advice, a proposal, or other matter) for future consideration instead of on|acting on it immediately; to shelve.
(quote-journal)
(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?"
(quote-book) Alternatively, the chairperson may decide to put the bill aside and ignore it. Most bills that are pigeonholed in this manner receive no further action.
To place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive; to categorize, to classify, to label.
(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.
(quote-song)/(w)|year_published=23 May 2000|oclc=44142264|passage=I'm not gonna be able, to top on (w) / And pigeonholed into some poppy sensation
(RQ:Rolling Stone)