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Disrelish vs Taxonomy - What's the difference?

disrelish | taxonomy |

As nouns the difference between disrelish and taxonomy

is that disrelish is a lack of relish: distaste while taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As a verb disrelish

is to have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.

disrelish

English

Noun

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  • A lack of relish: distaste
  • *{{quote-book, year=1690, author=John Locke, title=An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I., chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1818, author=John Franklin, title=The Journey to the Polar Sea, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The residents live principally upon this most delicious fish which fortunately can be eaten a long time without disrelish . }}
  • * Burke
  • Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.
  • *1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene II, verses 40-42
  • that those eyes may glow
    With wooing light upon me, ere the Morn
    Peers with disrelish , grey, barren, and cold.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1872, author=J. Fenimore Cooper, title=The Bravo, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="I have no other malice against the race, Signore, than the wholesome disrelish of a Christian. }}
  • *1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 685:
  • *:They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish , under the belief that they were economising.
  • Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.
  • (Milton)

    Verb

  • To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.
  • (Alexander Pope)
  • To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.
  • (Milton)

    taxonomy

    Noun

    (taxonomies)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology