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English

Etymology

From Middle English athwert, athirt, equivalent to a- +? thwart. Cognate with Scots athort (“athwart”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???w??(?)t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Adverb

athwart (comparative more athwart, superlative most athwart)

1. (archaic) From side to side; across.

   Synonym: overthwart
2. (archaic) Across the path (of something).
3. (archaic) Wrongly; perplexingly.

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Preposition

athwart

1. (archaic) From one side to the other side of.

   Synonym: overthwart

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Claribel

     At eve the beetle boometh / Athwart the thicket lone.

2. (nautical) Across the line of a ship's course or across its deck.

3. Across the path or course of; opposing.

   Synonym: opposing

   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p.283:

     It is the voice of human experience within us, judging and condemning all gods that stand athwart the pathway along which it feels itself to be advancing.

Quotations

• 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

  But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted / Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !

• Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

Derived terms

• athwartships

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Further reading

• “athwart”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

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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