different between bombardier vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French bombarder (“a stone throwing engine”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?m.b??d??/, enPR: bäm'b?r-d?r?
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?m.b??d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

bombardier (plural bombardiers)

1. (Canada, US) A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.
2. (Canada, Britain) A non-commissioned officer rank in artillery, equivalent to corporal. Abbreviated Bdr.
   • Wikipedia: Bombardier (Bdr) and Lance Bombardier (LBdr or L/Bdr) are British Army ranks used in the Royal Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery instead of (respectively) Corporal and Lance Corporal. In the Canadian Forces, the Artillery Branch uses the ranks of Master Bombardier and Bombardier instead of Master Corporal and Corporal.
3. An artilleryman; a gunner.
4. (entomology) A bombardier beetle.

Derived terms

• lance bombardier
• master bombardier
• bombardier beetle

Related terms

• bombard
• bomb
• bomber

Translations

References

• “bombardier” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

French

Etymology

From bombarder +? -ier

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.ba?.dje/

Noun

bombardier m (plural bombardiers)

1. (archaic) artilleryman, bombardier
2. (aircraft) bomber

Further reading

• “bombardier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

bombardier

1. singular imperative of bombardieren

Romanian

Etymology

From French bombardier

Noun

bombardier n (plural bombardiere)

1. bomber

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

Translations