different between broadcloth vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

broad +? cloth

Noun

broadcloth (countable and uncountable, plural broadcloths)

1. A dense, plain woven cloth, usually made of cotton or a cotton blend.
2. (historical) A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men’s garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide. (Reference: broadcloth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "The Bishop and the Canary," [1]

     The look of hurt fury which she hurled at the Bishop's back might have singed his clerical broadcloth.

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See also

• kersey
• poplin

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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