different between wiseling vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From wise +? -ling.

Noun

wiseling (plural wiselings)

1. One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre.

   This may well put to the blush those wiselings that show themselves fools in so speaking. ? Donne.

   • 1920, Henry Osborn Taylor, Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century:

     This is the book that makes fools of little wiselings.

   • 2010, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, At a Winter's Fire:

     What! a score o' wiselings, and not one to hit oot the means and the way?"

   • 2012, Anton LaVey, Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right:

     A wiseling keeps his real sentiments on this point to himself – guards them as his own life. The best mask for moral heresy is one of pretended sanctity.

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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