Taxonomy vs Answerable - What's the difference?
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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.
Obliged to answer or be called to account ((to) somebody); accountable, responsible.
(archaic) Correspondent, in accordance; comparable ((to)).
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.
(rare) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As an adjective answerable is
obliged to answer or be called to account ((to) somebody); accountable, responsible.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 * ontologyanswerable
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Alternative forms
* aunswerable (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? --Swift.
- What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course? --Holland.
- To this revelation he assented the sooner, as he confesses, because it was answerable to that of the Apostle to the Thessalonians, Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.
- The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable . --Johnson.