different between beturtlenecked vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

be- +? turtlenecked

Adjective

beturtlenecked (not comparable)

1. Wearing a turtleneck.
   • 2001, Jennifer Egan, Look at Me, Anchor Books (2001), ?ISBN, page 403:

     Last week, Thomas had sent a professional photographer to my apartment: Randall Knapp, a solemn, beturtlenecked fellow […]

   • 2009, Dan Moren, "Steve Jobs turns 54", Macworld, 24 February 2009:

     Personally, I like to imagine him, beturtlenecked and in jeans—perhaps with fuzzy bunny slippers replacing his usual sneakers—giving a keynote presentation to his friends and family, updating them on the status of Steve over the last quarter, and explaining to them all the new features that come with turning 54 ("And then your knees just give out—boom.")

   • 2010, Jonah Furman, "New Vibrations: The Tallest Man on Earth", The Johns Hopkins News-Letter (Johns Hopkins University), 11 November 2010:

     […] and on the steps are three fawning co-eds with flowers in their hair, ogling a mustachioed beturtlenecked artiste, […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:beturtlenecked.

Synonyms

• turtlenecked

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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