different between affirmative vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From Middle English affirmative, affirmatyve, from Old French affirmatif, from Latin affirmativus, from affirmare (“to assert”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f??m?t?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??f?m?t?v/

Adjective

affirmative (comparative more affirmative, superlative most affirmative)

1. pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming

2. pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
3. positive

4. Confirmative; ratifying.

5. dogmatic
   • 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher

     Lysicles was a little disconcerted by the affirmative air of Crito.

6. (logic) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
7. (algebra) positive; not negative

Derived terms

• affirmative action
• affirmatively

Translations

Noun

affirmative (plural affirmatives)

1. Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.

   Antonym: negative

2. (grammar) An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
3. (obsolete) An assertion.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.17:

     that every hare is both male and female, beside the vulgar opinion, was the affirmative of Archelaus, of Plutarch, Philostratus, and many more.

Translations

Interjection

affirmative

1. An elaborate synonym for the word yes.
2. (military, especially radio communications) Yes; true; correct.

See also

• affirmative sentence

References

• affirmative at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fi?.ma.tiv/

Adjective

affirmative

1. feminine singular of affirmatif

German

Adjective

affirmative

1. inflection of affirmativ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin

Adjective

affirm?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of affirm?t?vus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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