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taxonomy | scrabble |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As a verb scrabble is

to scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.

As a proper noun Scrabble is

a board game in which players draw letter tiles and take turns to make interlocking words like a crossword, scoring points according to the letters played and their positions on the board.

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

    scrabble

    English

    Verb

    (scrabbl)
  • To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
  • Thus I lay for a long time, but afterwards stood up and cried aloud, and shrieked if anyone should haply hear me, calling to Mr. Glennie and Ratsey, and even Elzevir, by name, to save me from this awful place. But there came no answer, except the echo of my own voice sounding hollow and far off down in the vault. So in despair I turned back to the earth wall below the slab, and scrabbled at it with my fingers, till my nails were broken and the blood ran out; having all the while a sure knowledge, like a cord twisted round my head, that no effort of mine could ever dislodge the great stone.
  • To move something about by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
  • She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.
  • To scribble.
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 13
  • David scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
  • To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
  • to scrabble paper

    Derived terms

    * hardscrabble * scrabbler

    See also

    * scrap * scrape * scrapple (a sausage-like food)

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