different between suitcase vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From suit +? case.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sutke?s/
• IPA^(key): /?sju?tke?s/, /?su?tke?s/

Noun

suitcase (plural suitcases)

1. A large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ?????? (s??kes)

Translations

Verb

suitcase (third-person singular simple present suitcases, present participle suitcasing, simple past and past participle suitcased)

1. To trade using samples in a suitcase.
2. (prison slang) To smuggle in one's rectum.

Anagrams

• Escutias, sauciest

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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