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taxonomy | acker |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and acker

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while acker is .

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

    acker

    English

    Etymology 1

    Origin unknown; perhaps a variant of (eagre).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 436:
    • The wide lovely lake lay in dreamy serenity, fretted with green undulations, ruffed with blue, patched with glades of lucid smoothness between the ackers [...].

    Etymology 2

    Variant forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • References

    * G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon

    Anagrams

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