See pigeonhole on Wiktionary
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"text": "The loft was lighted by a semicircular hole, though which the pigeons crept to their lodgings in the same high quarters of the premises; […] '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.",
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"text": "Abbé [Emmanuel Joseph] Sieyès has vvhole neſts of pigeon-holes full of conſtitutions ready made, ticketed, ſorted, and numbered; ſuited to every ſeaſon and every fancy; […]",
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"text": "Blank ink and red ink, pounce, wafers, wax, pens, seals, imbibing-paper, rulers, files, were all there; pegs for hats, shelves and hooks, pigeon-holes full of samples of sugar, of rice, tobacco, coffee, and the like: all the dull paraphernalia of a trader's elaboratory.",
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"text": "Theſe vvide VVhites are by Compoſiters (in vvay of Scandal) call'd Pidgeon-holes, and are by none accounted good VVorkmanſhip, unleſs in ſuch caſes of neceſſity, as aforeſaid. […] And if he [a compositor] 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, […]",
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"_dis1": "2 8 2 2 2 40 40 2 1 0 0",
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"ref": "1879, J[ames] A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray, Address to the Philological Society; quoted in “Pigeon-hole, v.”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 847, column 1:",
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"text": "I would rather have my ashes scattered over the soil, to help the growth of the grass and daisies; but still I should not murmur much at having them decently pigeon-holed in a Roman tomb.",
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"ref": "1910, Angus Hamilton, Herbert H[enry] Austin, Masatake Terauchi, “Sanitation and Water Works”, in Korea: Its History, Its People, and Its Commerce (Oriental Series; XIII), Boston, Mass.; Tokyo: J. B. Millet Company, →OCLC, page 294:",
"text": "[S]everal laws and regulations were enacted for the prevention of cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, and diphtheria. These laws were not carried into effect: they were pigeon-holed.",
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"ref": "1917 November, “The Looking Glass: Election Laws in Southern California”, in W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, editor, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, volume 15, number 1 (number 85 overall), New York, N.Y.: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29, column 2:",
"text": "This year, and in former years, politicians have set up that they were cheated, and have vociferously declared that they had the evidence. But no one prosecutes. No one swears out a warrant. The evidence is pigeonholed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1937 July, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Anslem Gets His Chance”, in Eggs, Beans and Crumpets, London: Herbert Jenkins […], published 26 April 1940, →OCLC, page 154:",
"text": "\"Putting the prophet Hosea to one side for the moment and temporarily pigeon-holing the children of Adullam,\" interrupted Myrtle, \"what are we going to do about this?\"",
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},
{
"ref": "1961 February, “Talking of Trains: The White Paper”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65:",
"text": "The Select Committee's recommendation that those which the railways are required to provide on grounds of national interest or social needs should be subsidised by the state has obviously been pigeon-holed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Edward Sidlow, Beth Henschen, America at Odds, 4th edition, Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, →ISBN, page 260:",
"text": "A committee chairperson will typically send the bill on to a subcommittee. […] 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.",
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"text": "Theſe vvide VVhites are by Compoſiters (in vvay of Scandal) call'd Pidgeon-holes, and are by none accounted good VVorkmanſhip, unleſs in ſuch caſes of neceſſity, as aforeſaid. […] And if he [a compositor] 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, […]",
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"word": "鴿棚 /鸽棚"
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"ref": "1917 November, “The Looking Glass: Election Laws in Southern California”, in W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, editor, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, volume 15, number 1 (number 85 overall), New York, N.Y.: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29, column 2:",
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"text": "\"Putting the prophet Hosea to one side for the moment and temporarily pigeon-holing the children of Adullam,\" interrupted Myrtle, \"what are we going to do about this?\"",
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"text": "The Select Committee's recommendation that those which the railways are required to provide on grounds of national interest or social needs should be subsidised by the state has obviously been pigeon-holed.",
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"ref": "2023 June 28, Nick Reilly, “Meet eee gee, the Singer who Refuses to Put Her Music in One Box”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-16:",
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{
"word": "pigeon-hole"
},
{
"word": "pigeon hole"
}
],
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to construct pigeonholes in (a place); to subdivide (a place) into pigeonholes",
"word": "lokeroida"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to put (letters, papers, or other items) into pigeonholes or small compartments; to arrange or sort (items) by putting into pigeonholes",
"word": "lokeroida"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to arrange (items) for future reference or use",
"word": "lokeroida"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "encasellar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "hokjesdenken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "lokeroida"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "luokitella"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "cataloguer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "ranger dans une case"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "in eine Schublade stecken"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "beskatulyáz"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "classificare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "etichettare"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kimetsukeru",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "決めつける"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vbrojuva",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "вбројува"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "rotular"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "encasillar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive — see also categorize, classify, label",
"word": "placera i ett fack"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Stanford University",
"Thomas Chippendale",
"pigeon-hole messagebox"
],
"word": "pigeonhole"
}
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