Taxonomy vs Amend - What's the difference?
taxonomy | amend |
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.
To make better.
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* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To become better.
(obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:
*, II.2.6.ii:
To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As a verb amend is
to make better.taxonomy
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(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 * ontologyamend
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Verb
(en verb)- Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .
- We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
- But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend .
- he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .