different between weatherboard vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

weather +? board

Noun

weatherboard (plural weatherboards)

1. (nautical) The windward side of a vessel.
2. (nautical) A plank placed over an opening to keep out driven water.
3. Any of a series of horizontal boards used to cover the exterior of a timber-framed building; clapboard.
   • 1952, Neville Shute, The Far Country, London: Heinemann, Chapter One,^[1]

     The homestead lies half a mile from the road, a small bungalow built of weatherboard with an iron roof and with verandas on three sides […]

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Verb

weatherboard (third-person singular simple present weatherboards, present participle weatherboarding, simple past and past participle weatherboarded)

1. (transitive) To cover with a weatherboard.

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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

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