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Taxonomy vs Somewhere - What's the difference?

taxonomy | somewhere |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and somewhere

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while somewhere is unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.

As an adverb somewhere is

in an uncertain or unspecified location.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia 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

    somewhere

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In an uncertain or unspecified location.
    • I must have left my glasses somewhere .
    I've hidden some candies somewhere .
  • To an uncertain or unspecified location.
    • He plans to go somewhere warm for his vacation.
    I have to go somewhere at lunch. Can I meet you at 2?

    Synonyms

    * someplace (US)

    Derived terms

    * somewhere over the rainbow

    Related terms

    * anywhere * everywhere * nowhere * somebody, someone * something

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.
  • * 1986 , Joel S. Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity: Living the Mystical Life , page 100:
    • We have come from somewhere and we are going somewhere, but because life is an unending circle, we are again going to come from a somewhere', and we are again going to go to a ' somewhere , and this will go on, and on, and on.
  • * 2008 , Bill Watkins, The Once and Future Celt , page 283:
    • A courting owl hoots in the somewheres of the night and another answers its call further off.
  • * 2012 , Thomas M. Kitts, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty , page 6:
    • and it transports the person to a somewhere', a ' somewhere that the music dictates.
    English compound determinatives