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" I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing."
Jonathan Levine

Meaning of "pigeonhole" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PIGEONHOLE

ˈpɪdʒɪnˌhəʊl


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PIGEONHOLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pigeonhole is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb pigeonhole in English.

WHAT DOES PIGEONHOLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pigeonhole in the English dictionary

The first definition of pigeonhole in the dictionary is a small compartment for papers, letters, etc, as in a bureau. Other definition of pigeonhole is a hole or recess in a dovecote for pigeons to nest in. Pigeonhole is also a category or classification.



CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PIGEONHOLE

PRESENT

Present
I pigeonhole
you pigeonhole
he/she/it pigeonholes
we pigeonhole
you pigeonhole
they pigeonhole
Present continuous
I am pigeonholing
you are pigeonholing
he/she/it is pigeonholing
we are pigeonholing
you are pigeonholing
they are pigeonholing
Present perfect
I have pigeonholed
you have pigeonholed
he/she/it has pigeonholed
we have pigeonholed
you have pigeonholed
they have pigeonholed
Present perfect continuous
I have been pigeonholing
you have been pigeonholing
he/she/it has been pigeonholing
we have been pigeonholing
you have been pigeonholing
they have been pigeonholing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I pigeonholed
you pigeonholed
he/she/it pigeonholed
we pigeonholed
you pigeonholed
they pigeonholed
Past continuous
I was pigeonholing
you were pigeonholing
he/she/it was pigeonholing
we were pigeonholing
you were pigeonholing
they were pigeonholing
Past perfect
I had pigeonholed
you had pigeonholed
he/she/it had pigeonholed
we had pigeonholed
you had pigeonholed
they had pigeonholed
Past perfect continuous
I had been pigeonholing
you had been pigeonholing
he/she/it had been pigeonholing
we had been pigeonholing
you had been pigeonholing
they had been pigeonholing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will pigeonhole
you will pigeonhole
he/she/it will pigeonhole
we will pigeonhole
you will pigeonhole
they will pigeonhole
Future continuous
I will be pigeonholing
you will be pigeonholing
he/she/it will be pigeonholing
we will be pigeonholing
you will be pigeonholing
they will be pigeonholing
Future perfect
I will have pigeonholed
you will have pigeonholed
he/she/it will have pigeonholed
we will have pigeonholed
you will have pigeonholed
they will have pigeonholed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been pigeonholing
you will have been pigeonholing
he/she/it will have been pigeonholing
we will have been pigeonholing
you will have been pigeonholing
they will have been pigeonholing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would pigeonhole
you would pigeonhole
he/she/it would pigeonhole
we would pigeonhole
you would pigeonhole
they would pigeonhole
Conditional continuous
I would be pigeonholing
you would be pigeonholing
he/she/it would be pigeonholing
we would be pigeonholing
you would be pigeonholing
they would be pigeonholing
Conditional perfect
I would have pigeonhole
you would have pigeonhole
he/she/it would have pigeonhole
we would have pigeonhole
you would have pigeonhole
they would have pigeonhole
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been pigeonholing
you would have been pigeonholing
he/she/it would have been pigeonholing
we would have been pigeonholing
you would have been pigeonholing
they would have been pigeonholing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you pigeonhole
we let´s pigeonhole
you pigeonhole
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to pigeonhole
Past participle
pigeonholed
Present Participle
pigeonholing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PIGEONHOLE

airhole · asshole · borehole · buttonhole · downhole · keyhole · knothole · loophole · manhole · mudhole · nine-hole · pie-hole · pinhole · posthole · pothole · rathole · sinkhole · suckhole · thumbhole · wormhole

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PIGEONHOLE

pigeon · pigeon breast · pigeon fancier · pigeon hawk · pigeon house · pigeon loft · pigeon pea · pigeon post · pigeon shooting · pigeon-chested · pigeon-hearted · pigeon-livered · pigeon-toed · pigeonholer · pigeonite · pigeonry · pigeonwing · pigface · pigfeed · pigfish

WORDS THAT END LIKE PIGEONHOLE

air hole · arsehole · as a whole · black hole · Committee of the Whole · cubbyhole · doughnut hole · dry hole · glory hole · hole · in the hole · on the whole · ozone hole · peephole · rabbit hole · sound hole · thole · toad-in-the-hole · watering hole · whole

Synonyms and antonyms of pigeonhole in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PIGEONHOLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pigeonhole» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «pigeonhole» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PIGEONHOLE

Find out the translation of pigeonhole to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pigeonhole from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pigeonhole» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

> 信件架
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

casilla
570 millions of speakers
en

English

pigeonhole
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

वर्ग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

برج الحمام
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Pigeonhole
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

escaninho
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

পায়রার খোপ
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

casier
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pigeonhole
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Fach
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

郵便物や書類を入れる壁の整理棚の仕切り
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

> 칸
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Pigeonhole
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cửa chuồng bồ câu
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

அறைகள் கொண்ட ஒரு
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

कबूतर
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

güvercin yuvası
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

casella
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

pigeonhole
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Pigeonhole
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

sertar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιστερώνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vakkie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fack
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bås
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pigeonhole

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PIGEONHOLE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of pigeonhole
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pigeonhole

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10 QUOTES WITH «PIGEONHOLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pigeonhole.
1
Karen Black
I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
2
Greg Boyle
God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.
3
Dominic Cooper
We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.
4
George Cukor
Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.
5
Bill Forsyth
I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.
6
Lukas Foss
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
7
Martin Freeman
Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
8
Jesse Johnson
I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.
9
Jonathan Levine
I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.
10
Colm Meaney
Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIGEONHOLE»

Discover the use of pigeonhole in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pigeonhole and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Logical Approach to Discrete Math
The pigeonhole principle is usually stated as follows. 3 (16.43) If more than n pigeons are placed in n holes, at least one hole will contain more than one pigeon. The pigeonhole principle is obvious, and one may wonder what it has to do with ...
David Gries, Fred B. Schneider, 1993
2
Leaving the Pigeonhole; A Personal Revolution
most common workplace pigeonholes. Dissecting these categories and the character traits that complement them will help us to become aware of our individual inherent traits. This will help us to identify the pigeonhole in which we have been ...
Valeria Berumen, 2010
3
Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics
INTRODUCTION Pigeonhole principle is a well known proof technique in mathematics. This principle is also known as the shoe box argument or Dirichlet drawer principle. Suppose these are 80 rooms in a hostel and these rooms are ...
Parmanand Gupta
4
Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures
The Pigeonhole Principle Theorem XI. Show that ifn pigeons are assigned to m pigeonholes and in < n, then there is at least one pigeonhole that contains two or more pigeons. Proof. Let us label the n pigeons with the numbers 1 through n ...
Gupta, Satinder Bal
5
Discrete Mathematics with Applications
A recipient of many honors, Erdös died of a heart attack while attending a mathematics meeting in Warsaw. Since there are exactly n odd positive integers ≤ 2n, by the pigeonhole principle, two of the elements b1, b2 ,...,b n+1 must be equal, ...
Thomas Koshy, 2004
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Discrete Mathematics for Teachers
In the following statement of the Pigeonhole Principle, the pigeonholes are analogous to the sofas in our game of musical sofas, and the pigeons correspond to the players in the game. The Pigeonhole Principle Theorem 8 (The Pigeonhole  ...
Ed Wheeler, Jim Brawner, 2010
7
Speaking of Animals: A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors
A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors Robert Allen Palmatier. PIGEONHOLE 289 from Europe and exists in great numbers in cities and rural areas. Pigeons are easily taken by net, snare, or shotgun. ATWS; BDPF; IRCD; LTA; NDAS; ST. See also ...
Robert Allen Palmatier, 1995
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FUNDAMENTALS OF DISCRETE MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURES
3.6. PIGEONHOLE. PRINCIPLE. The pigeonhole principle states that if there are h holes and total p pigeons in these holes and h < p, then there must be some holes with more than one pigeons. That is, if there is a mapping between two finite ...
K. R. CHOWDHARY, 2011
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Discrete Structures
PIGEONHOLE PRINCIPLE (P. T. U. M.C.A. Dec. 2003, 2004, 2005) Theorem X. Show that if n pigeons are assigned to m pigeonholes and m < n, then there is at least one pigeonhole that contains two or more pigeons. Proof. Let us label the n  ...
Satinder Bal Gupta, C. P. Gandhi, 2010
10
Combinatorial Problems in Mathematical Competitions
2. 1. Pigeonhole. Principle. Pigeonhole Principle also is called Drawer Principle or Dirichlet's Principle. Pigeonhole Principie is a basic and important principle of combinatorial mathematics which is widely used to prove many existence ...
Yao Zhang, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIGEONHOLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pigeonhole is used in the context of the following news items.
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Faces in the crowd: WNC crowdfunding initiatives
It's easy to pigeonhole ukeleles as an upbeat an cheery instrument, but try sinking into the silky smooth lull of Emily Bodley's strings and vocal ... «Mountain Xpress, Jul 15»
2
Anton Corbijn talks about Robert Pattinson at the Guanajuato Film …
“Although many related and pigeonhole the name of Robert Pattinson in the Twilight series, there are others, such as Dutch director Anton ... «Thinking of Rob, Jul 15»
3
Angels' Matt Joyce on bench, may be on his way out
“We're not going to pigeonhole ourselves into anything,” Scioscia said. “We're trying to break the cycle for Matt, where he is really just banging ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
4
Seligman leading UR's evolution
"They are guys who can really talk to the businessmen and don't look like other professors," Grella said. But Seligman is not easy to pigeonhole ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Jul 15»
5
How do churches get people 18 to 30 involved? They have to go out …
But it's difficult to pigeonhole young adults today, Eliason said. It used to be, when people volunteered for something, it was either a two-year ... «Grand Island Independent, Jul 15»
6
Creepoid Resist the 'Grunge Revival' With New Album 'Cemetery …
Despite the blogosphere's persistent attempts to pigeonhole their sound, Creepoid continue to prove that their discography defies the confines ... «Village Voice, Jul 15»
7
Lianne La Havas, Blood, review: 'poetic'
It is hard to pigeonhole La Havas. There is a breezy melodicism and giddy colourfulness to her arrangements that is poppy and accessible, yet ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
8
The Ashley Madison hacking: Some people really are just rats
People are simply too complex to pigeonhole. And let's face it, if someone cheats, there are usually more problems in the marriage than the ... «The Age, Jul 15»
9
Angels acquire infielder Conor Gillaspie from White Sox
I don't think we have to pigeonhole ourselves right now.” To create a spot for Gillaspie on the 40-man roster, the Angels designated left-hander ... «OCRegister, Jul 15»
10
What "coachspeak" means for your Fantasy team
... leagues, but the Browns could let him loose on the ground if he has the hot hand, and you can't just pigeonhole him to the passing attack. «Scout, Jul 15»
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