Bristling vs Taxonomy - What's the difference?
bristling | taxonomy |
Having bristles.
Showing anger.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=January 15
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd
, work=BBC
The act of one who bristles.
* 1906 , Jack London, White Fang
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
As nouns the difference between bristling and taxonomy
is that bristling is the act of one who bristles while taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As an adjective bristling
is having bristles.As a verb bristling
is .bristling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Tottenham had hoped to make a statement of real intent against the title pace-setters and while manager Harry Redknapp did not secure the victory he craved, he at least saw his side match United every stride of the way in a game that fizzled out after a bristling start. }}
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat — snarlings and bristlings and stiff-legged struttings. But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries.