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Pigeonhole vs Brand - What's the difference?

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Pigeonhole is a related term of brand.


As a noun pigeonhole

is a nook in a desk for holding papers.

As a verb pigeonhole

is to categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc.

As an adjective brand is

burnt, branded.

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

    brand

    English

    (wikipedia brand)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of wood red-hot, or still burning, from the fire.
  • * Palfrey
  • Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof.
  • (archaic) A sword.
  • * (John Milton)
  • Paradise, so late their happy seat, / Waved over by that flaming brand .
    (Tennyson)
  • A mark of ownership made by burning, e.g. on cattle, or to classify the contents of a cask.
  • A branding iron.
  • A name, symbol, logo, or other item used to distinguish a product or service, or its provider.
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  • A specific product, service, or provider so distinguished.
  • Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style, manner.
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  • The reputation among some population of an organization, of the products sold under a particular brand name, or of a person.
  • Any minute fungus producing a burnt appearance in plants.
  • Synonyms

    * trademark, logo, brand name, marque, tradename, proprietary name * (reputation) repute, name, good name

    Derived terms

    * brand awareness * brand equity * brand image * brand linkage * brand name * brand parity * brand stretch * branding * branding moment * own brand

    See also

    * * * * * * * * Picture Sorts * trademark * servicemark

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound.
  • :When they caught him, he was branded and then locked up.
  • To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership.
  • :The ranch hands had to brand every new calf by lunchtime.
  • To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.
  • :Her face is branded upon my memory.
  • To stigmatize, label (someone).
  • :He was branded a fool by everyone that heard his story.
  • *
  • *:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Man Utd 1-6 Man City , passage=As Ferguson strode briskly towards the Stretford End at the final whistle, he will have been reflecting on the extent of the challenge now facing him from the club he once branded "noisy neighbours".}}
  • (marketing) To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images.
  • :They branded the new detergent "Suds-O", with a nature scene inside a green O on the muted-colored recycled-cardboard box.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • (advertising) Associated with a particular product, service, or company.
  • That computer company has brand recognition.
    Have we settled on our brand name?