different between butterfingers vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From butter +? fingers, suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things as if their hands are coated in slippery butter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?t??f????z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?t??f????z/, [-??-]
• Hyphenation: but?ter?fing?ers

Noun

butterfingers (plural butterfingers)

1. (idiomatic, informal) Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.

Alternative forms

• butter fingers

Derived terms

• butterfingered

Translations

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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