different between borer vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

bore +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b????/
• (US) enPR: bôr??r, IPA^(key): /?b????/
• Rhymes: -????(?)

Noun

borer (plural borers)

1. A tedious person.
2. A person who bores, who drills.
3. A tool used for drilling.
4. An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
5. One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
6. The hagfish (Myxine).

Derived terms

Translations

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

borer

1. present of bore

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Bohrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??rer/
• Hyphenation: bo?rer

Noun

bórer m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. drill bit
2. drill

Declension

Synonyms

• (drill bit): svrdlo
• (drill): bormašina

References

• “borer” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

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