different between behave vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From Middle English behaven, bihabben (“to restrain, behave”), equivalent to be- +? have. Compare Old English behabban (“to include, hold, surround, comprehend, contain, detain, withhold, restrain”), Middle High German behaben (“to hold, take possession of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??he?v/, /b??he?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Verb

behave (third-person singular simple present behaves, present participle behaving, simple past and past participle behaved)

1. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
2. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
4. (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.

Derived terms

• behave oneself

Related terms

• behavior, behaviour
• behavioral, behavioural
• behaviorist, behaviourist
• behaviorism, behaviourism

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Further reading

• behave in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• behave in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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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