different between fourscore vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From four +? score.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??sk??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f??sk??/

Numeral

fourscore

1. (now archaic) Eighty.
   • 1914, Saki, ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts:

     Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years.

2. (idiomatic) A full-length life, reckoned as eighty years.

   Synonym: (dated, of biblical origin) three score and ten

Translations

See also

• twoscore

Noun

fourscore (plural fourscores)

1. A quantity or amount of eighty.
   • 1922, James Edward Carruthers, Memories of an Australian Ministry, 1868 to 1921 (page 125)

     W. J. Davis, a retired missionary, a veteran in the fourscores of his years.

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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