different between mitzvah vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew ?????? (mitsvá, “commandment”).

Noun

mitzvah (plural mitzvahs or mitzvoth)

1. (Judaism) Any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law
2. (Judaism) An act of kindness, a good deed.
   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 17:

     ‘You heard about them pulling my license. That was indirectly Joel. Who, without meaning to, did me such a mitzvah.’

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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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