different between conscription vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From Middle French conscription, from Latin c?nscripti? (“levying of troops”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?sk??p??n/

Noun

conscription (countable and uncountable, plural conscriptions)

1. Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.

   Synonym: draft

2. An enrolling or registering.
   • 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation

     conscription of men of war

Related terms

• conscribe
• conscript

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Further reading

• “conscription”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• conscription on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Morphologically, a borrowing from Latin c?nscr?pti?; however, semantically derived from conscrit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??s.k?ip.sj??/

Noun

conscription f (plural conscriptions)

1. conscription

Further reading

• “conscription” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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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