different between fireplug vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

fire +? plug, referring to the system used prior to fire hydrants, in which a large plug was placed into a hole in the water main, then covered with a barrel. The plug was removed when water was needed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?(?)pl??/

Noun

fireplug (plural fireplugs)

1. A fire hydrant.
   • 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, Delacorte Press, Chapter 1, p. 22,

     She is a strong and warm-hearted and hard-working farmer in her early sixties. She is built like a fireplug.

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• gripeful

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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