different between highway vs taxonomy
highway
English
Etymology
From Middle English hei?wai, hei?wei, from Old English h?ahwe? (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high +? way. Compare highgate, high street, high road.
Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ha?we?/
- Rhymes: -a?we?
Noun
highway (plural highways)
- (historical) A road that is higher than the surrounding land and has drainage ditches at the sides
- A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
- (figuratively) A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny
- (law, rail transport) Any public road for vehicular traffic.
- (computing) Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”)
Synonyms
- (road): hwy. (abbreviation)
Hyponyms
- (main public road): expressway, motorway
Derived terms
- hwy. (abbreviation)
- Highway Code
- highway hypnosis
- highwayman
- highway patrol
- highway robber, highway robbery
- one's way or the highway
Translations
References
- highway at OneLook Dictionary Search
- highway in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
highway From the web:
- what highway am i on
- what highways are closed in san antonio
- what highway am i on right now
- what highways are closed
- what highway has the most lanes
- what highway is the blue ridge parkway
- what highway is near me
- what highway is alligator alley
taxonomy
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)
- The science or the technique used to make a classification.
- A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
- (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
Translations
taxonomy From the web:
- what taxonomy means
- what taxonomy are humans
- what taxonomy do humans belong to
- what taxonomy is not a type of taxonomy
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