different between skylarking vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From skylark +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk??l??k??/

Verb

skylarking

1. present participle of skylark

Noun

skylarking (countable and uncountable, plural skylarkings)

1. (originally nautical) Playing around; frolicking; originally, running about the rigging of a vessel for fun; horseplay.
   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

     […] those gods and men whose titles to eminence are secure, seldom worry themselves about the seditious gossip of old apple-women, and the skylarkings of funny little boys in the street.

Translations

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

Translations