different between sackful vs taxonomy

English

Etymology 1

sack (“bag”) +? -ful

Noun

sackful (plural sackfuls or sacksful)

1. The amount a sack will contain.

   A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.

   • c. 1623, Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Morall, Politicall, London: Henry Seile, Essay 48, p. 155,^[1]

     If I be not so rich, as to sowe almes by sackfulls, euen my Mite, is beyond the superfluity of wealth: and my pen, my tongue, and my life, shal (I hope) helpe some to better treasure, then the earth affoords them.

   • 1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, 1992, Part 3, p. 227,^[3]

     You live until you die, and it doesn’t matter how you go; dead’s dead. So why carry on like a sackful of sick cats just because Herb Clutter got his throat cut?

2. (figuratively) A large number or amount (of something).
   • 1590, Henry Barrow, A Brief Discoverie of the False Church, p. 231,^[4]

     what can the Pope say more for his sackfull of traditions?

   • 1680, Richard Head, The English Rogue Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, London: Francis Kirkman, Chapter 7, p. 87,^[5]

     […] away we went home again fraught with a Sackful of news to tell our Master.

   • 1853, uncredited translators, German Popular Tales and Household Stories: Collected by the Brothers Grimm, New York: C.S. Francis, Volume I, 74. “The Fox and the Cat,” p. 381,^[6]

     […] I understand a hundred arts, and have, moreover, a sackful of cunning!

   • 1915, H. Rider Haggard, Allan and the Holy Flower, London: Longman, Green, Chapter 19, p. 349,^[7]

     Day and night the poor fellow raved, and always about that confounded orchid, the loss of which seemed to weigh upon his mind as though it were a whole sackful of unrepented crimes.

   • 1986, Hanif Kureishi, “Bradford” in Granta 20, Winter, 1986, p. 163,^[8]

     He received sackfuls of hate mail and few letters of support.

Translations

Etymology 2

sack (verb) +? -ful

Adjective

sackful (comparative more sackful, superlative most sackful)

1. (obsolete) Intent on plunder.
   • c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 2, p. 30,^[9]

     Now will I sing the sackfull troopes, Pelasgian Argos held,

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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