different between pigeonhole vs catalogue

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)

1. One of an array of compartments for housing pigeons.
2. 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.

3. One of an array of compartments for storing scrolls at a library.
4. 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)

1. 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.

2. 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.

Synonyms

• (not act on): mothball, shelve, table, glove box

Translations

Derived terms

• pidge

Related terms

• pigeonhole principle
• pigeonholeable
• pigeonholer

See also

• cubbyhole

English

Alternative forms

• catalog (American)

Etymology

From Middle English cathaloge, from Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek ????????? (katálogos, “enrollment, register”), from ???????? (katalég?, “to recount, make a list”), from ????- (kata-, “downwards, towards”) + ???? (lég?, “to say, to speak, to tell”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæt.??l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ?.??l??/
• (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?kæ?.??l??/

Noun

catalogue (plural catalogues)

1. A systematic list of names, books, pictures etc.
   • 1999, J. G. Baker, Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles

     He intended to publish a flora of the island, and drafted out a synonymic catalogue, into which he inserted from time to time elaborate descriptions drawn up from living specimens of the species which he was able to procure.
2. A complete (usually alphabetical) list of items.
3. A list of all the publications in a library.
4. A retailer's magazine detailing the products they sell, allowing the reader to order them for delivery.
5. (US) A book printed periodically by a college, university, or other institution that gives a definitive description of the institution, its history, courses and degrees offered, etc.
6. (computing, dated) A directory listing.
   • 1983, Helpline (in Sinclair User issue 21)

     The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated.

   • 2001, "Michael Foot", BeebIt 0.32 and BBCFiles 0.29 released (on newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.announce)

     BBCFiles is a BBC file converter that converts between some of the various types of files used by BBC emulators on Acorn & PC formats. It supports 6502Em style applications & scripts, /ssd dfs disc images (supporting watford double catalogue), vanilla directories, /zip of bbc files with /inf files (with limitations) and directory of bbc files with /inf files.

   • 2003, "Brotha G", Repairing Microdrive Cartridges (on newsgroup comp.sys.sinclair)

     It has two extra options using extended syntax. CAT - an extended catalogue but not as detailed as some I've seen. ( The reason that the Spectrum CAT command is restricted is that it cleverly uses the 512 bytes data buffer of the microdrive channel to sort the filenames - hence the limit of 50 ten-character filenames )

7. (music) A complete list of a recording artist's or a composer's songs.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:list

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

catalogue (third-person singular simple present catalogues, present participle cataloguing, simple past and past participle catalogued)

1. To put into a catalogue.
2. To make a catalogue of.
3. To add items (e.g. books) to an existing catalogue.

Synonyms

• (make a catalogue of): list; see also Thesaurus:tick off
• (add to an existing catalogue): put down; see also Thesaurus:enlist

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• coagulate

French

Etymology

From Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek ????????? (katálogos, “an enrollment, a register, a list, catalogue”), from ???????? (katalég?, “to recount, to tell at length or in order, to make a list”), from ????- (kata-, “downwards, towards”) + ???? (lég?, “to gather, to pick up, to choose for oneself, to pick out, to count”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta.l??/
• Homophone: catalogues

Noun

catalogue m (plural catalogues)

1. A systematical catalogue

Verb

catalogue

1. inflection of cataloguer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “catalogue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Verb

catalogue

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of catalogar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of catalogar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of catalogar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of catalogar

Spanish

Verb

catalogue

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of catalogar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of catalogar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of catalogar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of catalogar.