pigeonholing

1. （置于墙上或书桌中的）鸽笼式分类架，信件（或文件）格
   A pigeon-hole is one of the sections in a frame on a wall where letters and messages can be left for someone, or one of the sections in a writing desk where you can keep documents.
2. VERB （常指未全面考虑特质或特点地）给…分类，把…归类
   To pigeon-hole someone or something means to decide that they belong to a particular class or category, often without considering all their qualities or characteristics.
   1. He felt they had pigeonholed him...
      他感到他们硬把自己划入了某一类人。
   2. I don't want to be pigeonholed as a kids' presenter.
      我不想被归类为儿童节目主持人。
3. N-COUNT 类别；类型
   If you put someone in a particular pigeon-hole, you decide that they belong in a particular category.
   1. Because I had an unusual accent people were not able to put me into a pigeon-hole.
      因为我与众不同的口音，人们无法把我归入任何一类。

1. THR: "Decameron" is diametrically different than "Sith." Was your selection of that project an attempt to avoid "Star Wars" pigeonholing?
   报道者：《十日谈》和《西斯的复仇》完全不同。你是不是有意做了这样的选择以避免陷入《星战》的套路？
2. Conservative people recommend this option to avoid pigeonholing yourself.
   保守派建议这种方式，以免让自己在一棵树上吊死。
3. The results show that the non profit organization of land should emphasize on the work of land science and technology archives, especially on the collecting, pigeonholing, using, editing& research and surveying on users.
   研究结论：土地事业单位应重视土地科技档案工作，重视土地科技档案的收集、整理和利用，搞好土地科技档案的编研和用户调查。
4. The Archives work is a science, its basis is the work of archives establishment and pigeonholing.
   档案工作是门科学，立卷归档工作是档案工作的基础。
5. Practice of the Pigeonholing and Management for Digital Observation Recording CD
   数字观测记录光盘归档管理的实践
6. The PACS System, which is based on the computer network, is the Medical Image Adminstration System, it integrated such subsystems as the acquisition of the image data, the adminstration and control of saving and pigeonholing, transmission distribution, display disposal and etc.
   PACS系统是以计算机网络为基础，将影像数据采集、存储归档管理与控制、传输分配、显示处理等子系统集成整合为一体而构成医院影像管理系统。
7. Control unit for high temperature performance test system was developed which controls automatically real-time data acquisition, course of process, data processing, pigeonholing and file printing.
   高温回热器性能试验测控系统能自动完成数据的实时采集、过程控制、数据处理、归档、日志及报表的打印等全部工作。

noun

1. a system for classifying things into groups

   Synonym:    grouping