Taxonomy vs Autodefenestration - What's the difference?
taxonomy | autodefenestration |
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.
(rare, nonce) The act of hurling oneself from a window.
* 1986 , Rich Relations'' (in ''New York Magazine , volume 19, number 18)
* 2002 , Ian Lauchlan, Russian hide-and-seek: the tsarist secret police in St. Petersburg, 1906-1914?
* 1995 , Denis Ashton Warner, Wake me if there's trouble
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and autodefenestration
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while autodefenestration is (rare|nonce) the act of hurling oneself from a window.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 * ontologyautodefenestration
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(-)- She climbs out on a window ledge and threatens autodefenestration if the marriage isn't contracted, and is soon joined on the ledge by Jill.
- Ipana, a leading practitioner of feline-autodefenestration , also helped, I think.
- ...Lindesay had the misfortune to fall out of a window, which elicited from the Times a memorable cable, which said simply: 'Cease autodefenestration .'