different between brainpan vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• brain-pan
• braynepan [16th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English brayn panne, from Old English bræ?npanne, corresponding to brain +? pan.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?e?npan/

Noun

brainpan (plural brainpans)

1. (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The skull. [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, First Folio 1623, IV.9:

     Many a time but for a Sallet, my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:

     Yet, whether thwart or flatly it did lyte, / The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.

2. (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The brain or mind. [from 17th c.]

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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