different between stockpile vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From stock +? pile. Compare Proto-Germanic *stapulaz (“post”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?kpa?l/

Noun

stockpile (plural stockpiles)

1. A supply, especially a large one, of something kept for future use.

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Verb

stockpile (third-person singular simple present stockpiles, present participle stockpiling, simple past and past participle stockpiled)

1. To accumulate a stockpile.

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Further reading

• stockpile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

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