different between foreteller vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From foretell +? -er.

Noun

foreteller (plural foretellers)

1. Someone who foretells.
   • 2010 July 16, Laurie Winer, "Born to Check Mail" (book review of Hamlet's Blackberry by William Powers), New York Times (retrieved 24 Nov 2011):

     But Powers, a former staff writer at The Washington Post who has written extensively on media and technology, is not simply an earnest foreteller of doom.

Synonyms

• prognosticator, prophet, seer
• See Thesaurus:oracle

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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