Pigeonholed vs Category - What's the difference?
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(pigeonhole)
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
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
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(mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
As a verb pigeonholed
is (pigeonhole).As a noun category is
a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.pigeonholed
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Verb
(head)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 .
Verb
(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.
Synonyms
* (not act on) shelve, tableSee also
* cubbyholecategory
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(wikipedia category)Noun
(categories)- The traditional way of describing the similarities and differences between constituents is to say that they belong to categories'' of various types. Thus, words like ''boy'', ''girl'', ''man'', ''woman'', etc. are traditionally said to belong to the category''' of Nouns, whereas words like ''a'', ''the'', ''this'', and ''that'' are traditionally said to belong to the ' category of Determiners.
- This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category .
- I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.
- One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.
- Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.