Associations to the word «Pigeonhole»

PIGEONHOLE, noun. A nook in a desk for holding papers.

PIGEONHOLE, noun. One of an array of compartments for sorting post, messages etc. at an office, or college (for example).

PIGEONHOLE, noun. A hole, or roosting place for pigeons.

PIGEONHOLE, noun. Ancient Roman system of storage, used in libraries for keeping scrolls

PIGEONHOLE, verb. To categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc.

PIGEONHOLE, verb. To put aside, to not act on (proposals, suggestions, advice).

PIGEONHOLE PRINCIPLE, noun. (mathematics) A theorem which states that there does not exist an injective function on finite sets whose codomain is smaller than its domain.

PIGEONHOLE, noun. A specific (often simplistic) category.

PIGEONHOLE, noun. A small compartment.

PIGEONHOLE, verb. Place into a small compartment.

PIGEONHOLE, verb. Treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European".