different between evacuation vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From Old French evacuation, from Late Latin ?vacu?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??vækju?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

evacuation (countable and uncountable, plural evacuations)

1. The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
2. Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, fortress, etc.
3. The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
4. Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
5. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Quincy to this entry?)

6. Abolition; nullification.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     evacuation of all Romish ceremonies

Derived terms

Related terms

• evacuee
• evacuate
• evacuation slide

Translations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?vacu?ti?.

Noun

evacuation f (oblique plural evacuations, nominative singular evacuation, nominative plural evacuations)

1. (medicine) evacuation (of the bowels)

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

Translations