different between refrigerate vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From participle stem of Latin refriger? (“to make cold”), from re- + friger?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???f??d???e?t/

Verb

refrigerate (third-person singular simple present refrigerates, present participle refrigerating, simple past and past participle refrigerated)

1. (transitive, obsolete in general sense) To cool down, make cool.
   • , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.149:

     the other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart.

2. (transitive) Now specifically, to keep cool by containing within a refrigerator.

   Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.

Related terms

• refrigerant
• refrigeration
• refrigerator

Translations

See also

• refrigeration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Verb

refrigerate

1. second-person plural present indicative of refrigerare
2. second-person plural imperative of refrigerare
3. feminine plural of refrigerato

Latin

Verb

refr?ger?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of refr?ger?

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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