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Taxonomy vs Cark - What's the difference?

taxonomy | cark |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and cark

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while cark is (obsolete) a noxious or corroding worry.

As a verb cark is

to be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles or cark can be .

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

    cark

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
  • To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
  • *1831 , (Adam Clarke), VI p.600:
  • *:Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age.
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  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
  • * Spenser
    • His heavy head, devoid of careful cark .
  • * Motherwell
    • Fling cark and care aside.
  • * R. D. Blackmore
    • Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.
  • (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.

    • Etymology 2

    From (caulk)

    Verb

    (en verb)

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