different between footpad vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• foot-pad

Etymology

foot +? pad

Pronunciation

Noun

footpad (plural footpads)

1. The soft underside of an animal's paw.
2. (medicine) A medicated bandage for the treatment of corns and warts.
3. (archaic) A thief on foot who robs travellers on the road.
4. (Australia) An unmade, minor walking trail formed only by foot traffic.

Alternative forms

• foot pad (walking trail)

Verb

footpad (third-person singular simple present footpads, present participle footpadding, simple past and past participle footpadded)

1. (archaic) To rob travellers on the road.
2. To sneak on foot.

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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