Knell vs Taxonomy - What's the difference?
knell | taxonomy |
to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* , The New Timon. A romance of London , Chapter 86
to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.
the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
* 1750 , , Line 1
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 knell and taxonomy
is that knell is the sound of a bell knelling; a toll while taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As a verb knell
is to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.knell
English
Verb
(en verb)- not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
- Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone .
Noun
(en noun)- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,