different between buttonhook vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

button +? hook

Noun

buttonhook (plural buttonhooks)

1. (sewing) A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.
2. A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 370]:

     Hustlers used to sell shoes like that to the greenhorns fifty years ago with a buttonhook for a bonus.

3. (American football) A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of scrimmage.

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Verb

buttonhook (third-person singular simple present buttonhooks, present participle buttonhooking, simple past and past participle buttonhooked)

1. (American football) To perform the buttonhook play.

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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