different between gainsome vs taxonomy

English

Etymology 1

From gain (“profit, advantage, foredeal, benefit”) +? -some.

Adjective

gainsome (comparative more gainsome, superlative most gainsome)

1. Marked by gain; gainful; profitable.
   • 1843, Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy, The Legion of Liberty!:

     The cotton grower felt delight at the gainsome expansion of his cotton fields.

   • 2013 (original 1480), Sarah Annes Brown, Andrew Taylor, Ovid in English, 1480-1625. Part One: Metamorphoses:

     It not consisteth all of pleasant words, / More gainsome tricks are there still to be found; [...]

Etymology 2

From gain (“straight, direct, immediate, short”) +? -some.

Adjective

gainsome (comparative more gainsome, superlative most gainsome)

1. Well-formed; handsome; gainly.

Anagrams

• magnesio-

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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