Usually means: Assigning more objects to containers.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. pigeonhole: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pigeonhole: Merriam-Webster
  3. pigeonhole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pigeonhole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pigeonhole: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pigeonhole: Vocabulary.com
  7. pigeonhole: Wordnik
  8. pigeonhole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pigeonhole: Wiktionary
  10. pigeonhole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pigeonhole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pigeonhole: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pigeonhole, pigeonhole: Dictionary.com
  14. pigeonhole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pigeonhole (album), Pigeonhole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pigeonhole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pigeonhole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pigeonhole: Rhymezone
  19. Pigeonhole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pigeonhole: FreeDictionary.org
  21. pigeonhole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. pigeonhole: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. pigeonhole: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. pigeonhole: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pigeonhole: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pigeonhole: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pigeonhole, pigeonhole: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pigeonholed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One of an array of open compartments for housing pigeons in a dovecote or pigeon loft.
noun:  (archaic) A hole or opening in a door or wall for a pigeon to pass through.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  One of an array of open compartments in a desk, set of shelves, etc., used for sorting and/or storing letters, papers, or other items.
noun:  One of an array of open compartments for receiving mail and other messages at a college, office, etc.
noun:  A compartment or cubicle in a room or other place, especially one which is (excessively) small.
noun:  A small opening for looking or passing things through.
noun:  (nautical, archaic) An opening in a ship for passing equipment such as an oar or rigging through.
noun:  (historical, chiefly in the plural, also attributive) A form of stocks with openings for restraining a person's hands or feet; also, one of the openings in the device.
noun:  (obsolete, theater) A seat in the top row of the gallery of a theatre.
noun:  (figurative)
noun:  A notional category or class into which someone or something is placed.
noun:  (typography, archaic) A space between two words that is too wide.
verb:  To construct pigeonholes (noun sense 1 or sense 3.1) in (a place); also, to subdivide (a place) into pigeonholes.
verb:  To put (letters, papers, or other items) into pigeonholes or small compartments; also, to arrange or sort (items) by putting into pigeonholes.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To arrange (items) for future reference or use.
verb:  To put aside (advice, a proposal, or other matter) for future consideration instead of acting on it immediately; to shelve.
verb:  To place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive; to categorize, to classify, to label.

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