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Graded vs Pigeonholed - What's the difference?

graded | pigeonholed |

As verbs the difference between graded and pigeonholed

is that graded is (grade) while pigeonholed is (pigeonhole).

graded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (grade)
  • Anagrams

    * *

    grade

    English

    (wikipedia grade)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rating.
  • The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
  • A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
  • * {{quote-web
  • , year = 1986–2012 , author = paul wheaton permaculture , title = Diatomaceous Earth (food grade): bug killer you can eat! , site = richsoil.com , url = http://www.richsoil.com/diatomaceous-earth.jsp , accessdate = 2014-03-17 }}
    There are a lot of varieties of diatomaceous earth, so when you are shopping, be sure to get the right stuff!

    Make sure that you get food grade' diatomaceous earth. Some people make 3% of the food they eat be diatomaceous earth. There are claims at parasite control, longevity and all sorts of perks. I know that food '''grade''' diatomaceous earth is used heavily in storing grains - so you are probably already eating lots of diatomaceous earth every time you eat any bread, pasta or other grain based food.

    Farmers feed food '
    grade
    diatomaceous earth to their animals to reduce parasites and provide other benefits.
    This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.
  • A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
  • A level of pre-collegiate education.
  • A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
  • An area that has been graded by a grader (construction machine)
  • The level of the ground.
  • (label) A gradian.
  • (label) In a linear system of divisors on an n''-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of ''n generic divisors.
  • A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Greenleaf Whittier)
  • The grade of hatchets fiercely thrown / On wigwam-log, and tree, and stone.
  • (label) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
  • (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
  • Synonyms

    * (taxon that is not a clade) paraphyletic group

    Verb

  • To assign scores to the components of an academic test.
  • To assign a score to overall academic performance.
  • To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface.
  • (label) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
  • Derived terms

    {{rel3, gradable , grader , grade school , grade system , make the grade}}

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    pigeonholed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pigeonhole)

  • pigeonhole

    Alternative forms

    * pigeon-hole * pigeon hole

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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).
  • Fred was disappointed at the lack of post in his pigeonhole .
  • A hole, or roosting place for pigeons.
  • Ancient Roman system of storage, used in libraries for keeping scrolls
  • Verb

    (pigeonhol)
  • To categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc.
  • Fred was tired of being pigeonholed as a computer geek.
  • * 1902 ,
  • 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.
  • 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 , page 294
  • These laws were not carried into effect: they were pigeon-holed .
  • * 1917 , , November 1917 issue, The Looking Glass: Election laws in Southern California , page 29
  • [...] vociferously declared that they had the evidence. But no one prosecutes. No one swears out a warrant. The evidence is pigeonholed .
  • * 2008 , Edward Sidlow, Beth Henschen, America at Odds , page 251
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (not act on) shelve, table

    See also

    * cubbyhole