different between hophead vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

hop +? -head

Pronunciation

Noun

hophead (plural hopheads)

1. (US, slang) A drug addict.
   • 1939, Walton Hall Smith, Ferdinand Christian Helwig, Liquor, the Servant of Man (page 193)

     For the alcoholic there are numerous substitutes: a period of intense diversion and excitement, pressing need for rest, hypnotic sedatives, sleep. Not for the hophead. Sedatives don't touch it; he can't rest; he can't even sleep.

   • 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest, Knopf:

     Why should we all go around on tiptoe forever pretending the kid's not a hophead?

2. (Britain, slang) A beer enthusiast or homebrewer.

Anagrams

• head-hop

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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