Taxonomy vs Dizzy - What's the difference?
taxonomy | dizzy |
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.
Having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.
* Drayton
Producing giddiness.
* Macaulay
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous
* Milton
To make dizzy, to bewilder.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.161:
* Sir Walter Scott
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As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As an adjective dizzy is
having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.As a verb dizzy is
to make dizzy, to bewilder.taxonomy
English
(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee 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 * ontologydizzy
English
Alternative forms
* dizzie (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- I stood up too fast and felt dizzy .
- Alas! his brain was dizzy .
- We climbed to a dizzy height.
- To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.
- ...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.
- My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
- the dizzy multitude
Derived terms
* dizzily * dizziness * dizzyinglyVerb
- Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature.
- If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.
England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova, passage=So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times. The contest did not extend beyond the half-hour mark.}}