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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)

  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

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ticket

English

Etymology

From Middle English ticket, from Old French etiquet m, *estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (a bill, note, label, ticket), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (to attach, stick), (compare Picard estiquier (to stick, pierce)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (to stick, pierce, sting), from Proto-Germanic *stikan?, *stik?n?, *staikijan? (to be sharp, pierce, prick), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (to be sharp, to stab). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /?t?k?t/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?t?k?t/
  • Rhymes: -?k?t

Noun

ticket (plural tickets)

  1. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
  2. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
  3. A citation for a traffic violation.
  4. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
  5. A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally technical support related).
  6. (informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
  7. A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
  8. (dated) A little note or notice.
    • 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England
      He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.
  9. (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
    • 1633, Shackerley Marmion, A Fine Companion
      Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.
  10. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
  11. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
  12. (dated) A visiting card.
    • 1878, Mrs. James Mason, All about Edith (page 124)
      I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited.
    • 1899, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading
      "Mr. Gibbs come in just now," said Mrs. Blewett, "and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it."
  13. (law enforcement slang) A warrant.
    • 1999, Doug Most, Always in Our Hearts (page 148)
      [] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Tok Pisin: tiket
  • ? Assamese: ???? (tikot)
  • ? Bengali: ????? (?iki?), ????? (?iki?), ???? (?ikô?)
  • ? Catalan: tiquet
  • ? Dutch: ticket
    • ? Indonesian: tiket
  • ? French: ticket
  • ? German: Ticket
  • ? Hindustani:
    Hindi: ???? (?ika?)
    Urdu: ???? (?ika?)
  • ? Irish: ticéad
  • ? Italian: ticket
  • ? Japanese: ???? (chiketto)
  • ? Korean: ?? (tiket)
  • ? Malay: tiket
  • ? Maori: t?keti
  • ? Marathi: ????? (tik??)
  • ? Nepali: ???? (?ika?)
  • ? Oriya: ???? (?ikô?ô)
  • ? Portuguese: ticket, tiquete
  • ? Scottish Gaelic: tiogaid
  • ? Serbo-Croatian: ????? (tiket)
  • ? Spanish: ticket, tique, tiquete
  • ? Tagalog: tiket
  • ? Tamil: ????????? (?ikka??u)
  • ? Tibetan: ??????? (?i ka si)

Translations

See also

  • ticket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Ticket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

ticket (third-person singular simple present tickets, present participle ticketing, simple past and past participle ticketed)

  1. To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
  2. To mark with a ticket.
    to ticket goods in a retail store

Derived terms

  • ticket off

Translations

Anagrams

  • ktetic

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t?.k?t/
  • Hyphenation: tic?ket

Noun

ticket n or m (plural tickets, diminutive ticketje n)

  1. ticket or voucher

Derived terms

  • vliegticket

Descendants

  • ? Indonesian: tiket

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ti.k?/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

  1. ticket (admission, pass)
  2. receipt
  3. (Quebec) ticket (traffic citation)

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From English ticket. Doublet of etichetta.

Noun

ticket m (invariable)

  1. prescription charge
  2. ticket stub (especially at a horserace)

Further reading

  • ticket in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /?t??i.ket??/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

  1. ticket (slip entitling the holder to something)
    Synonym: bilhete

Spanish

Etymology

From English ticket.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?tiket/, [?t?i.ket?]

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

  1. receipt

Swedish

Noun

ticket

  1. definite singular of tick

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