Taxonomy vs Bagatelle - 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.
A trifle; an unsubstantial thing.
* 1850 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 68, page 226)
* 1879' (6 Sep), "Railway Projects", ''Railway World'', ' 5 (36): 853
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A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
* 2007 , Norman Lebrecht, The Life And Death of Classical Music , page 7
A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
* 1895 , Hugh Legge, "The Repton Club", in'' John Matthew Knapp (ed.), ''The Universities and the Social Problem , page 139
Any of several smaller, wooden table top games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins; also called pin bagatelle, hit-a-pin bagatelle, jaw ball.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and bagatelle
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while bagatelle is .taxonomy
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* 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 * ontologybagatelle
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(en noun)- The repayment of the cost of the western part of the road, whatever it might be, would be a mere bagatelle , for the older provinces would have been enriched by the stimulus given to business by the opening up of the plains,
- One afternoon in 1920. a young pianist sat down in a shuttered room in the capital of defeated Germany and played a Bagatelle by Beethoven.
- For some time they did nothing save box, but at last they went down to the bagatelle' room, and played '''bagatelle''' for a bit. They marked this advance in civilization by prodding holes in the ceiling with the ' bagatelle cues, which gave the ceiling the appearance of a cloth target after a Gatling gun had been shooting at it.