different between crockpot vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• crock pot

Etymology

From Crock-Pot (1971), brand name of slow cooker by The Rival Company, from crock +? pot. Coined by duplication and assonance.

Noun

crockpot (plural crockpots)

1. A slow cooker.

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Verb

crockpot (third-person singular simple present crockpots, present participle crockpotting, simple past and past participle crockpotted)

1. (transitive) To cook (food) in a slow cooker.

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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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