different between moonrise vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From moon +? rise.

Pronunciation

Noun

moonrise (plural moonrises)

1. The time of day or night when the moon begins to rise over the horizon.
   • 1742, Matthew Towers (translator), The Lyric Pieces of Horace, Dublin, Volume I, Ode III, p. 17,^[1]

     Venus now re-assembles her Choirs of Virgins at Moon-rise, and leads the Ball.

   • 1804, Anna Maria Porter, The Lake of Killarney, London: Longman & Rees, Volume I, p. 23,^[2]

     Shooting, hunting, and cricket, were pursued with the eagerness of laborious occupations: often has he rambled about from day-break to moon-rise, in search of game; and then returned to Mr. ONiel’s, pale with fatigue, and sick with fasting.

   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 7,^[3]

     Weena, I was glad to find, was fast asleep. I carefully wrapped her in my jacket, and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise.

   • 1909, Edith Wharton, “The Mortal Lease” V, in Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse, New York: Scribner’s, p. 41,^[4]

     Do I not know, some wingèd things from far

     Are borne along illimitable night

     To dance their lives out in a single flight

     Between the moonrise and the setting star?

   • 1917, James Joyce, “She Weeps over Rahoon” in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Volume XI, No. II, November, 1917, p. 71,^[5]

     Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling

     Where my dark lover lies.

     Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling

     At grey moonrise.

Antonyms

• moonset

Translations

See also

• earthrise
• sunrise

Anagrams

• ionomers

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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