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taxonomy | cargo |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As a verb cargo is

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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

    cargo

    English

    Noun

  • Freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc.
  • * 1806 , James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
    • "…her whole and entire cargo'; and, also, all such other ' cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,…"
  • * 1913 , Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence ,
    • "…but human life is worth more than ships or cargos ."
  • (Papua New Guinea ) Western material goods.
  • * 1995 , Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji , Duke University Press, page xi
    • "They wrote of Pacific people with millenarian (and sometimes anti-colonial) expectations who used magical means to get western things (hence the term "cargo " cult)."

    Derived terms

    * cargo cult *