Classify vs Pigeonhole - What's the difference?
classify | pigeonhole |
to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize
to declare something a secret, especially a government secret
A nook in a desk for holding papers.
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.
Ancient Roman system of storage, used in libraries for keeping scrolls
To categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc.
* 1902 ,
To put aside, to not act on (proposals, suggestions, advice).
* 1910 , Angus Hamilton, Herbert Henry Austin, Masatake Terauchi, Korea: Its History, Its People, and Its Commerce ,
* 1917 , , November 1917 issue, The Looking Glass: Election laws in Southern California ,
* 2008 , Edward Sidlow, Beth Henschen, America at Odds , page 251
As verbs the difference between classify and pigeonhole
is that classify is to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize while pigeonhole is to categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc.As a noun pigeonhole is
a nook in a desk for holding papers.classify
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* (to declare a secret) declassifySee also
* arrange * distribute * rankExternal links
* *pigeonhole
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(wikipedia pigeonhole)Alternative forms
* pigeon-hole * pigeon holeNoun
(en noun)- Fred was disappointed at the lack of post in his pigeonhole .
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(pigeonhol)- Fred was tired of being pigeonholed as a computer geek.
- He prided himself on his largeness when he granted that there were three kinds of women... Not that he pigeon-holed Frona according to his inherited definitions.
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- These laws were not carried into effect: they were pigeon-holed .
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- [...] vociferously declared that they had the evidence. But no one prosecutes. No one swears out a warrant. The evidence is pigeonholed .
- 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.