different between spellcheck vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• spell check

Etymology

Back-formation from spellchecker.

Noun

spellcheck (plural spellchecks)

1. The act of spellchecking.

   You'd better run another spellcheck now that you've written that extra chapter.

2. A spellchecker.

   My wordprocessor is supposed to have a spellcheck, but I don't know how to use it.

Verb

spellcheck (third-person singular simple present spellchecks, present participle spellchecking, simple past and past participle spellchecked)

1. To check that words in written text are properly spelled.
2. (transitive) To run a spellchecker on (a document).

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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