Taxonomy vs Downcast - What's the difference?
taxonomy | downcast |
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.
(of eyes) Looking downwards.
* Dryden
(of a person) Feeling despondent.
(computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
(obsolete) A melancholy look.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
(obsolete) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
(Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
(computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and downcast
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while downcast is (computing) a cast from supertype to subtype.As an adjective downcast is
(of eyes) looking downwards.As a verb downcast is
(obsolete) to cast or throw up; to turn upward.taxonomy
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(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 * ontologydowncast
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 'Tis love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, / And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise.
Noun
(en noun)- That downcast of thine eye.