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taxonomy | athwart |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adverb athwart is

from side to side; across.

As a preposition athwart is

from one side to the other side of.

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

    athwart

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) From side to side; across.
    • Above, the stars appeared to move slowly athwart .
    We placed one log on the ground, and another athwart , forming a crude cross.
  • (archaic) Across the path (of something).
    • a fleet standing athwart our course
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    • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (lb) From one side to the other side of.
  • :
  • *, II.iii:
  • *:Knit with a golden bauldricke, which forelay / Athwart her snowy brest, and did diuide / Her daintie paps
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:At eve the beetle boometh / Athwart the thicket lone.
  • (lb) Across the line of a ship's course or across its deck.
  • :
  • (lb) Across the path or course of; opposing.
  • *1902 , (William James), (The Varieties of Religious Experience) , Folio Society 2008, p.283:
  • *:It is the voice of human experience within us, judging and condemning all gods that stand athwart the pathway along which it feels itself to be advancing.

    • Quotations

    *1816 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), *:But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted / Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! * *:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

    Derived terms

    * athwartships