Taxonomy vs Swoon - What's the difference?
taxonomy | swoon |
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.
A faint.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
An infatuation
(dated) to faint, to lose consciousness
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, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs
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to be overwhelmed by emotion (especially infatuation)
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and swoon
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while swoon is swan.taxonomy
English
(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 * ontologyswoon
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Alternative forms
* swound (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon . How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"
Verb
(en verb)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage= I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned . }}
