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desiccate
English
Etymology
From Latin d?sicc?re (“to dry completely, dry up”) +? -ate (verb suffix indicating acting in the specified manner). D?sicc?re is derived from d?sicc? (“to desiccate, dry up; to drain dry”) (from d?- (prefix meaning ‘completely, to exhaustion’) + sicc? (“to dry; to drain, exhaust”), from siccus (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-) + -?re.
The adjective is derived from Latin d?sicc?tus (“dried up”), the perfect passive participle of d?sicc?: see above. The noun is derived from the adjective.
Pronunciation
- Verb and adjective:
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?s?ke?t/, (archaic) /d??s?ke?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d?s?ke?t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?s?ke?t/, (archaic) /d??s?ke?t/
- Noun:
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?d?s?k?t/
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?d?s?k?t/
- Hyphenation: de?sic?cate
Verb
desiccate (third-person singular simple present desiccates, present participle desiccating, simple past and past participle desiccated)
- (transitive) To remove moisture from; to dry. [from late 16th c.]
- Synonyms: dehydrate, (obsolete) exiccate, exsiccate, parch
- Antonyms: hydrate, moisten, moisturize, wet
- (transitive) To preserve by drying. [from late 16th c.]
- (intransitive, rare) To become dry; to dry up.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
desiccate (comparative more desiccate, superlative most desiccate)
- Having had moisture removed; dehydrated, dessicated.
- Synonym: dried
Translations
Noun
desiccate (plural desiccates)
- A substance which has been dessicated, that is, had its moisture removed.
Translations
References
Further reading
- dessication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- cadetcies
Latin
Verb
d?sicc?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of d?sicc?
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taxonomy
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)
- The science or the technique used to make a classification.
- A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
- (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
taxonomy From the web:
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- what taxonomy do humans belong to
- what taxonomy is not a type of taxonomy
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