different between hashhouse vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From hash +? house.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ha?ha?s/

Noun

hashhouse (plural hashhouses)

1. (US, colloquial) A cheap diner or eating-house.
   • 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin 2005, p. 86:

     ‘We went out about three-thirty or so to get something to eat at the hashhouse around the corner,’ Hench said.

   • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 88:

     In the big town, no job, has to deal 'em off the arm in hashhouse again, sad.

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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