different between confidante vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From French confidente.

Noun

confidante (plural confidantes)

1. A female confidant.
2. A type of settee having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 20:

     Meanwhile, Sally peels herself from the stage's only prop – a green-velvet confidante – and staggers off into the wings.

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Italian

Verb

confidante

1. present participle of confidare

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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