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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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index
- For Wiktionary's indexes, see Wiktionary:Index
English
Etymology
From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indic? (“point out, show”); see indicate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nd?ks/
Noun
index (plural indexes or indices or (obsolete, in use in the 17th century) index's)
- An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
- The index finger; the forefinger.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:index finger
- A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
- (typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
- Synonym: manicule
- That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
- 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments
- Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants.
- 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments
- A sign; an indication; a token.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson
- His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson
- (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
- (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
- (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
- (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
- (computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
- (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
- (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
- c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, 4
- Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?
- c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, 4
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- (alphabetical listing): table of contents
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “index”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Verb
index (third-person singular simple present indexes, present participle indexing, simple past and past participle indexed)
- (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
- To inventory, to take stock.
- (chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
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. - (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
- (computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.
Derived terms
- indexer
Translations
Further reading
- index in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- index in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- nixed, xenid
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??nd?ks]
Noun
index m
- index (alphabetical listing of items and their location)
- (economics) index
- index spot?ebitelských cen — consumer price index
- (computing, databases) index (a data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table)
Synonyms
- (alphabetical listing): rejst?ík
Related terms
- See dikce
- indexace
- indexový
- indexovat
- indexování
- indicie
- indikace
- indikátor
- indikovat
Further reading
- index in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- index in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch index, from Latin index.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.d?ks/
- Hyphenation: in?dex
Noun
index m (plural indexen or indices, diminutive indexje n)
- index (list)
- index (number or coefficient representing various relations)
- (medicine, anatomy) index finger
- Synonym: wijsvinger
Derived terms
- brekingsindex
- prijsindex
Related terms
- indexatie
- indexeren
- indicator
- indiceren
French
Etymology
From Latin index (“pointer, indicator”), from indic? (“point out, show”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.d?ks/
Noun
index m (plural index)
- index
- forefinger
- The welcome page of a web site, typically index.html, index.htm or index.php
Derived terms
- mettre à l'index
Further reading
- “index” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin index.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?ind?ks]
- Hyphenation: in?dex
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
index (plural indexek)
- (automotive) turn signal (US), indicator (UK) (each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change)
- Synonym: irányjelz?
- pointer, hand, indicator (a needle or dial on a device)
- Synonyms: mutató, kar
- (higher education) transcript, report card, course report (in higher education)
- Synonym: leckekönyv
- Coordinate term: (in lower education) ellen?rz?
- index (an alphabetical listing of items and their location, usually at the end of publications)
- Synonyms: névmutató, tárgymutató, szómutató
- ban, blacklist (a list of books that was banned)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- index in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Latin
Etymology
From indic? (“point out, indicate, show”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + dic? (“indicate; dedicate; set apart”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?in.deks/, [??n?d??ks?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?in.deks/, [?in?d??ks]
Noun
index m or f (genitive indicis); third declension
- A pointer, indicator.
- The index finger, forefinger.
- Synonym: digitus sal?t?ris
- (of books) An index, list, catalogue, table, summary, digest.
- (of books) A title, superscription.
- A sign, indication, proof, mark, token, index.
- An informer, discoverer, director, talebearer, guide, witness, betrayer, spy.
- (of paintings or statues) An inscription.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- index in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- index in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- index in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- index in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- index in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- index in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- index in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin index
Noun
index n (plural indexuri)
- index
Declension
Swedish
Noun
index n
- an index
Declension
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