different between thievery vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From thieve +? -ery. Compare Old Frisian deverie ("thievery; theft"; > West Frisian dieverij; Saterland Frisian Däiweräi), Dutch dieverij (“thievery”), German Low German Deveree (“thievery; theft”), German Dieberei (“thievery”), Danish tyveri (“thievery; theft; larceny”), Swedish tjuveri (“thievery”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??i?v.(?)?.i/

Noun

thievery (plural thieveries)

1. The act of theft, the act of stealing.

   This instance of thievery will not be overlooked.

2. (obsolete) That which is stolen.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, IV. iv. 42:

     Injurious Time now, with a robber's haste, / Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how;

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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