different between dustman vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

dust +? -man, as household refuse previously consisted largely of ashes (dust) from domestic fires.

Noun

dustman (plural dustmen)

1. (Britain) A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
   • 1960, Lonnie Donegan, "My Old Man's A Dustman"

     Oh, my old man's a dustman
     He wears a dustman’s hat
     He wears cor-blimey trousers
     And he lives in a council flat.

Synonyms

• bin man (UK)
• garbage collector (US, Canada)
• garbage man (US, Canada)
• garbo (Australia)
• refuse collector (UK)
• sanitation engineer (US, Canada)
• trashman (US, Canada)

Coordinate terms

• (gender): dustwoman f

Translations

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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