different between unbolted vs taxonomy

English

Verb

unbolted

1. simple past tense and past participle of unbolt

Adjective

unbolted (not comparable)

1. Not fastened with a bolt.
   • 1779, Samuel Johnson, Prefaces Biographical and Critical to the Works of the English Poets, London: C. Bathurst et al., Volume 2, “Milton,” p. 46,^[1]

     […] it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may afterwards be censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

2. Not sifted.
3. (figuratively, obsolete) Coarse, uncultured, vulgar.
   • c. 1605,, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 2,^[2]

     My lord, if you’ll give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the walls of a jakes with him.

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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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