different between hotshot vs taxonomy

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

hotshot (comparative more hotshot, superlative most hotshot)

1. (informal) Highly skilled.

   He was a hotshot lawyer, with an astounding win-loss record.

2. (informal) Displaying talent.

   Keep up those hotshot baskets, the scouts are sure to take notice.

Translations

Noun

hotshot (plural hotshots)

1. (informal) Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.

2. A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about.
3. (US, rail transport) A fast freight train.
   • 1959, "Steam's Finest Hour", edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co.

4. (slang) A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
   • 1997, Andi Rierden, The Farm: Life inside a women's prison (page 120)

     I sniffed glue, transmission fluid, gasoline, whatever drug anybody gave me, I took. […] [Y]ears ago, I was in a drug rehabilitation program and found out that my brother was killed after somebody gave him a hotshot, drugs laced with poison.

Coordinate terms

• (firefighter): smokejumper

Translations

Verb

hotshot (third-person singular simple present hotshots, present participle hotshotting, simple past and past participle hotshotted)

1. (transitive, slang) To give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.

See also

• (firefighter): interagency hotshot crew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “hotshot” in the Collins English Dictionary

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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