different between quietsome vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From quiet +? -some.

Adjective

quietsome (comparative more quietsome, superlative most quietsome)

1. (archaic) Characterised or marked by quietness; calm; still; tranquil
   • 1810 (original 1595), Edmund Spenser, John Aikin, Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems:

     Let no false treason seek us to entrap, / Nor any dread disquiet once annoy / The safety of our joy; / But let the night be calm and quietsome, / Without tempestuous storms or sad affray, / Like as when Jove with fair Alcmena lay, [...]

Synonyms

• stillsome

Anagrams

• semi-quote, semiquote

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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