Pinching vs Taxonomy - What's the difference?
pinching | taxonomy |
That pinches, or causes such a sensation
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
The act of one who or that which pinches.
* 2012 , Paul Theroux, The Lower River
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 pinching and taxonomy
is that pinching is the act of one who or that which pinches while taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As an adjective pinching
is that pinches, or causes such a sensation.As a verb pinching
is .pinching
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It was one January morning, very early — a pinching , frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings , such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.