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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cubbyhole |
| Type of | compartment |
pigeonhole::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | category |
Examples of pigeonhole
pigeonhole
We often like to pigeonhole things but there are so many unknowns and variables.
From the cnn.com
Mind you, there are less complimetary ways to pigeonhole the average DFW reader.
From the orlandosentinel.com
It will make you laugh, but don't expect it to fit in any snug genre pigeonhole.
From the orlandosentinel.com
He is not an easy man to pigeonhole politically, although he is a stern moralist.
From the denverpost.com
I don't really like to pigeonhole myself as this kind of back or that kind of back.
From the dailyherald.com
Pigeonhole-dodging French support act Alcest began life as a black metal act.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
It's not necessarily how I think of myself and people do like to pigeonhole.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Get your children into them now before they start to pigeonhole themselves.
From the telegraph.co.uk
They announced the arrival of two hard-working, hard-to-pigeonhole auteurs.
From the time.com
- Place into a small compartment
- A specific (often simplistic) category
- Treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European"
- (pigeonholing) grouping: a system for classifying things into groups
- Pigeonholing is a term used to describe processes that attempt to classify disparate entities into a small number of categories (usually, mutually exclusive ones).
- One of an array of compartments for sorting post, messages etc. at an office, or college (for example); A hole, or roosting place for pigeons; To categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc
- (pigeonholing) the classification of disparate entities into categories, not always for the right reason
- (Pigeonholing) An attempt to subsume something into a frame-of-reference that is too small to incorporate the thing. "You call me a name so you don't have to see me - you just see the name that you call me."
- Deo Landicho on Fotopedia
