different between schlockware vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

schlock +? ware, from Yiddish ?????? (shlak), from German Schlacke.

Noun

schlockware (uncountable)

1. (computing) Software that is of shoddy or inferior quality.
   • 1998, Larry Wall, quoted in "Open source gurus convene", C-Net E-Magazine, April 8, 1998.

     You'll do us all a big favor if you disassociate freeware from schlockware.

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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