different between arrange vs pigeonhole
arrange
English
Etymology
From Middle English arengen, arrangen (“to draw up a battle line”), from Old French arengier, arrangier (“to put in a line, put in a row”), from reng, rang, ranc (“line, row, rank”), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”). Akin to Old High German hring, ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (“ring”), Old Norse hringr (“ring, circle, queue, sword; ship”). More at ring.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???e?nd?/
- Rhymes: -e?nd?
Verb
arrange (third-person singular simple present arranges, present participle arranging, simple past and past participle arranged)
- (transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
- (transitive, intransitive) To plan; to prepare in advance.
- (music, transitive, intransitive) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Derived terms
- arrangement
Translations
French
Verb
arrange
- first-person singular present indicative of arranger
- third-person singular present indicative of arranger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of arranger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of arranger
- second-person singular imperative of arranger
Anagrams
- rangera
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pigeonhole
English
Alternative forms
- pigeon-hole
- pigeon hole
Etymology
pigeon +? hole.
Originally literal hole for pigeons, later similar compartments for paper, then extended metaphorically in verb sense of narrowly categorizing or deferring.
Pronunciation
Noun
pigeonhole (plural pigeonholes)
- One of an array of compartments for housing pigeons.
- One of an array of compartments for receiving mail and other messages at a college, office, etc.
- Fred was disappointed to find his pigeonhole empty except for bills and a flyer offering 20% off on manicures.
- One of an array of compartments for storing scrolls at a library.
- A similar compartment in a desk, used for sorting and storing papers.
Translations
Verb
pigeonhole (third-person singular simple present pigeonholes, present participle pigeonholing, simple past and past participle pigeonholed)
- 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, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows
- 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, The Crisis, 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.
- 1910, Angus Hamilton, Herbert Henry Austin, Masatake Terauchi, Korea: Its History, Its People, and Its Commerce, page 294
Synonyms
- (not act on): mothball, shelve, table, glove box
Translations
Derived terms
- pidge
Related terms
- pigeonhole principle
- pigeonholeable
- pigeonholer
See also
- cubbyhole
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