different between severally vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

several +? -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?v(?)??li/

Adverb

severally (not comparable)

1. separately
   • 1912, James Stephens, The Crock of Gold, New York: MacMillan, 1926, Book V, p. 229, [1]

     The policemen severally presented him with a pipe, a tin of tobacco, two boxes of matches and a dictionary, and then they withdrew leaving him to his own devices.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter X, p. 162, [2]

     As it was, they were unable to discuss the details severally as they would have done had murder not become thus wholesale.

2. (Africa) Several times, repeatedly
   • 2012, Business Daily (Kenya), 12 November, 2012, [3]

     It tells them that those rules can be broken; and certainly they will break them, not once or twice but severally.

   • 2016, Nigeria Today, 29 April, 2016, [4]

     It was at the point of confronting Alaba, who had been warned severally along with other tenants, that Ogunyemi met her demise.

Synonyms

• (separately): See also Thesaurus:individually
• (repeatedly): again and again, over and over, over and over again, time and again

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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