different between embattled vs taxonomy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?bæt.?ld/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?bæt.?ld/, /?m?bæt.?ld/

Adjective

embattled (comparative more embattled, superlative most embattled)

1. Subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates.
2. Prepared or armed for battle.
3. Of a wall, fortress, etc., having battlements or crenellations.
4. (heraldry) Drawn with a line of alternating square indentations and extensions.

   Synonym: crenellé

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Verb

embattled

1. simple past tense and past participle of embattle

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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