different between alpinism vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

alpine +? -ism

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ælp?n?z?m/

Noun

alpinism (usually uncountable, plural alpinisms)

1. (sometimes capitalized) Mountain climbing.

   Synonyms: mountaineering, mountain climbing

   • 1912, "New Maps," Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, vol. 44, no. 7, p. 558,

     . . . our rapidly increasing knowledge of the Rocky Mountains of Canada for which geography is so greatly indebted to alpinism.

Related terms

• alpinist

Translations

Further reading

• mountaineering on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Palin-ism, Palinism

Romanian

Etymology

From French alpinisme.

Noun

alpinism n (uncountable)

1. mountaineering

Declension

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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