different between zonked vs taxonomy

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??kt

Adjective

zonked (comparative more zonked, superlative most zonked)

1. (slang) Extremely fatigued.

   After eighteen hours of proofreading, I was completely zonked.

2. (slang) Deeply asleep.

   I must have been really zonked. They said it took fifteen minutes to wake me up.

3. (slang) Drunk.
   • 1974, New York Magazine (volume 7, number 27, July 1974)

     […] swingers in the audience were getting zonked on beer and fresh sea breezes and sound […]

Synonyms

• (extremely fatigued): knackered (UK slang); See also Thesaurus:fatigued
• (deeply asleep): fast asleep
• (drunk): See also Thesaurus:drunk

Related terms

• zonk
• zonk out

Translations

Anagrams

• zedonk

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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