different between houseclean vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

house +? clean

Verb

houseclean (third-person singular simple present housecleans, present participle housecleaning, simple past and past participle housecleaned)

1. (intransitive) To clean the interior and furnishings of a residence.
2. (intransitive) To make major reforms; to clean house.
3. (transitive) To clean the interior and residential furnishings of.
4. (transitive) To rid of undesirable personnel and procedures.

Usage notes

• The intransitive sense of reform is much more commonly expressed as "clean house".

Derived terms

• housecleaner

Anagrams

• clean house

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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