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nightlight
English
Etymology
night +? light
Pronunciation
Noun
nightlight (plural nightlights)
- a small, dim light or lamp left on overnight
- 1925, D. H. Lawrence, Quetzalcoatl, edited by Louis L. Martz, New York: New Directions, 1998, Chapter XVIII, p. 310,
- She had brought in with her the night-light that had been burning outside her door. She blew it out.
- 1974, Anne Sexton, "The Fury of Overshoes" in The Complete Poems, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981, p. 372,
- They made you give up / your nightlight / and your teddy / and your thumb.
- 1988, Joseph Brodsky, "Gorbunov and Gorchakov" Canto 13 in In Urania, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 165,
- Your light cannot drive off the dark from me— / not any more than night-lights by the bed / drive off my dreams.
- He put a small nightlight in the bathroom to find his way around in the dark.
- 1925, D. H. Lawrence, Quetzalcoatl, edited by Louis L. Martz, New York: New Directions, 1998, Chapter XVIII, p. 310,
- light that shines at night such as moonlight, starlight, etc.
- 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part Six, Chapter III, [1]
- The floor-cloth deadened his footsteps as he moved in that direction through the obscurity, which was broken only by the faintest reflected night-light from without.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 12, [2]
- […] the man held up two small objects faintly twinkling in the nightlight;
- 1980, William Trevor, Other People's Worlds, Penguin, 1982, Chapter 4, p. 79,
- Their made-up faces were garish in the night-light and as they walked they stared fixedly ahead, afraid to make a sideways glance in case it should be called soliciting.
- 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part Six, Chapter III, [1]
Hypernyms
- light
Translations
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taxonomy
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)
- The science or the technique used to make a classification.
- A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
- (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
Translations
taxonomy From the web:
- what taxonomy means
- what taxonomy are humans
- what taxonomy do humans belong to
- what taxonomy is not a type of taxonomy
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