Translation for "pigeon-hole" to spanish
Pigeon-hole
noun
Translation examples
What the voice had meant, of course, was not that Thomas More and Henry the Eighth were one and the same person, but that, in that business of putting personalities into pigeon-holes according to reigns, Thomas More belonged to the reign of Henry the Eighth.
La voz no se refería a que Tomás Moro y Enrique VIII fueran la misma persona, por supuesto, sino a que, a la hora de encasillar a los personajes en sus compartimentos, Tomás Moro correspondía al de Enrique VIII.
noun
The pigeon-hole that had that number was empty.
La casilla que le correspondía estaba vacía.
Except for the pigeon hole labeled 208.
Salvo la casilla etiquetada como 208.
He felt in his pigeon-hole, but there was no mail.
Tanteó en su casilla, pero no tenía correo.
And 'Pipi' took her place in a pigeon-hole in his memory, where Rémy Starch was already stored.
Y la palabra «Pipi» fue a alojarse en una casilla de su memoria donde ya estaba el almidón Remy.
The clerk with a shrug of the shoulders took out the letters from a pigeon-hole and sorted them once more.
El empleado, encogiéndose de hombros, sacó las cartas de la casilla y las fue pasando una a una.
He turned. The other was taking a paper down from a pigeon-hole. Horace returned to the desk.
Horace se volvió. El otro estaba sacando un papel de una casilla y poniéndolo sobre el mostrador. Horace se acercó.
He observed that two of these, those occupying the centre pigeon-hole space, were very short, and did not reach the back of the desk.
Observó que dos de éstos, los que ocupaban la casilla central, eran muy cortos y no llegaban al tablero posterior del mueble.
Once a month, he would look in his pigeon-hole at the Club Royal and find an envelope with just one word on the return address: Britancourt.
Una vez al mes miraba en su casilla del Club Royal y encontraba un sobre con una única palabra en el remite: Britancourt.
Once she had put the envelopes into the pigeon-holes she threw a woollen shawl around her shoulders and half closed the damper on the stove.
Una vez metidos todos los sobres en las casillas, se echó un mantón de lana sobre los hombros, y cerró hasta la mitad la llave de la estufa.
Kraus did not fit into any political pigeon-hole and remained outside party politics, even when he spoke out on the questions of the day.
Kraus no encajaba en ninguna casilla política y se mantuvo siempre fuera de la política de partidos, incluso cuando expresaba sus opiniones sobre los temas del día.
verb
On such attributes, Sebastian might be comfortably pigeon-holed with other young men in an equally fortunate position, and dismissed from Anquetil’s mind.
En razón de esos atributos, Anquetil habría podido archivar cómodamente a Sebastian al lado de otros jóvenes de posición igualmente afortunada, y no pensar más en él.
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