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English

Etymology

From Middle English outgang, from Old English ?tgang (“an outgoing, exit”), from Proto-Germanic *?tgangaz, equivalent to out- +? gang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?t?æ?/

Noun

outgang (plural outgangs)

1. An exit or egress.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:outgang.

2. The act of giving up occupancy of property.
3. An outgate; a cattle-gate.
   • 1841, The history and antiquities of the seigniory of Holderness:

     Sit William Saunders, priest, gave as follows:—for the repair of the church windows, bridges for a church road, bell ropes, &c., church balke, [...] dam, and dam bridge, and outgang, [...] outgang between White Hall Close and Mill Hill Close [...]

   • 1896, Thomas Blashill, Sutton-in-Holderness: The manor, the berewic, and the village community:

     An ordinary outgang was a place where the cattle of a village assembled, when they were to be driven out together to ... This outgang seems to have run between the old enclosed lands and the southern part of the West Carr or Marsh [...]

   • 1902, Doncaster (England), A calendar to the records of the borough of Doncaster:

     A "bounder" of certain land belonging to the corporation of Doncaster in the occupation of John Lambe, minister of Rossington viz. a laithe or barn in the outgang next the town street, the upper outgang and the nether outgang, and land in the Church field, the Ing field and the Park field.

Related terms

• ingang

Anagrams

• gnu goat

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English ?tgang (“an outgoing, exit”), from Proto-Germanic *?tgangaz.

Noun

outgang (plural outgangs)

1. An exit

Related terms

• ingang
• misgang

Descendants

• English: outgang
• Scots: outgang

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English outgang, from Old English ?tgang (“an outgoing, exit”), from Proto-Germanic *?tgangaz.

Noun

outgang (plural outgangs)

1. A going out, departure
2. (commercial) a departure of goods by way of exportation; the duty applied to exported goods, export duty
3. An egress, exit; a means of escape
4. An outgate

References

• “outgang”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714

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

Translations