different between yielder vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From Middle English yeldere, ?elder, ?eldere, equivalent to yield +? -er.

Noun

yielder (plural yielders)

1. Someone or something that yields a crop or other product.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Phase the Third, Chapter 19,^[1]

     Out of the whole ninety-five [cows] there were eight in particular […] who, though the teats of one or two were as hard as carrots, gave down to her with a readiness that made her work on them a mere touch of the fingers. Knowing, however, the dairyman’s wish, she endeavoured conscientiously to take the animals just as they came, excepting the very hard yielders which she could not yet manage.
2. Someone or something that yields, or gives way.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene 2,^[4]

     Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong,

     Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;

     For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;

     Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things catch.

Anagrams

• reedily

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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