different between chiseler vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• chiseller

Etymology

chisel +? -er

Noun

chiseler (plural chiselers)

1. One who uses a chisel for carving.
2. (informal) A cheat; a swindler; a con artist.
   • 1941, Groucho Marx, The Big Store (movie)

     [Of course $20,000 is too much.] Only a cheap chiseler would ask that much.

3. (informal, Ireland, 20th-century inner-city Dublin slang) A child.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Ch. 6

     --Reuben and the son were piking it down the quay next the river on their way to the Isle of Man boat and the young chiseller suddenly got loose and over the wall with him into the Liffey.

Synonyms

• (informal: con artist): sharper, spiv

Translations

Anagrams

• Eichlers, Reichels, Reichles

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