different between potshot vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• pot shot

Etymology

pot +? shot

Noun

potshot (plural potshots)

1. A shot taken at an easy or random target.
2. Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.
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Verb

potshot (third-person singular simple present potshots, present participle potshotting, simple past and past participle potshotted)

1. To fire potshots.

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Anagrams

• hot pots, hot spot, hotpots, hotspot

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

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