different between rubbernecking vs taxonomy

English

Noun

rubbernecking (uncountable)

1. The act of slowing down whilst driving a vehicle, in order to see the scene of an accident.
   • 2004, Robert G. Ferrell, Tangent: A Novel [1], ?ISBN, page 131:

     "The resulting wreckage blocks the entire southbound side of the Interstate, while the inevitable rubbernecking slows traffic on the northbound side to little more than the speed of a brisk walk."

2. Generally, any act of observation in a manner considered unduly overt or otherwise unseemly.

   The children had never been in such a large museum and their rubbernecking was rather amusing.

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Verb

rubbernecking

1. present participle of rubberneck
   • 2006, Jack Myers, Row House Blues [2], ?ISBN, page 339:

     "Kids all up and down the Triboro corridors are staring, I can sense it. Why are they rubbernecking, what are they staring at?"

See also

• gapers' block
• gawkers' block

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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