Pigeonhole vs. Stereotype — What's the Difference?

A small compartment or recess, as in a desk, for holding papers; a cubbyhole.

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group.

A specific, often oversimplified category.

A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

The small hole or holes in a pigeon loft for nesting.

A relief printing plate cast in a mould made from composed type or an original plate.

To place or file in a small compartment or recess.

View or represent as a stereotype

To classify mentally; categorize.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

To put aside and ignore; shelve.

One that is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.

One of an array of compartments for housing pigeons.

(Printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix molded from a raised printing surface, such as type.

(by extension) One of an array of compartments for receiving mail and other messages at a college, office, etc.

To make a stereotype of.

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

To characterize by a stereotype

A similar compartment in a desk, used for sorting and storing papers.

To give a fixed, unvarying form to.

(figurative) A category.

To print from a stereotype.

To categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc.

A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).

To put aside, to not act on (proposals, suggestions, advice).

(psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.

A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; - so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.

(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.

To place in the pigeonhole of a case or cabinet; hence, to put away; to lay aside indefinitely; as, to pigeonhole a letter or a report.

(software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

A specific (often simplistic) category

(transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.

A small compartment

To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

Place into a small compartment

To print from a stereotype.

Treat or classify according to a mental stereotype;

To make firm or permanent; to fix.

A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.

The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them.

To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.

Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.

A conventional or formulaic conception or image;

Treat or classify according to a mental stereotype;