different between numbnuts vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

numb +? nuts

Pronunciation

Noun

numbnuts (plural numbnuts or numbnutses)

1. (chiefly US, slang, derogatory, sometimes humorous, often as a term of address) A slow-witted, unresponsive, or inept person (usually male).

   Tell numbnuts over there to wake up and pay attention to his work.

   The drill instructor must have called him "numbnuts" fifty times today.

References

• “numbnuts” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• In A Dictionary of Slang: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom, retrieved 25 May 2007.
• In An Unabridged Unofficial Dictionary for Marines, retrieved 25 May 2007.

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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