Taxonomy vs Celluloid - What's the difference?
taxonomy | celluloid |
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.
Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.
* 1894 June, Antonia Dickson, W. K. L. Dickson, , Volume 48, Issue 2,
* 1910 , ,
(figuratively, often used attributively) The genre of cinema; film.
* 2001' August 14, Riki Wilchins, ''Gender on '''celluloid'' , in '' ,
* 2004 , Preston Whaley, Blows Like a Horn ,
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and celluloid
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while celluloid is celluloid.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 * ontologycelluloid
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(wikipedia celluloid) (-)- Then followed some experiments with drums, over which sheets of sensitized celluloid film were drawn, the edges being pressed into a narrow slot in the surface, similar in construction to the old tin-foil phonograph.
- "And will you now, sir, take off your celluloid collar and permit me to burn it in the candle? Thank you, sir. And will you allow me to smash your spectacles for you with my hammer? Thank you."
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- In particular, they set Kerouac and Ginsberg to the specifications of an emergent superficial form—celluloid antiheroes—attractive to those in want of adventure and who would soon be reading On the Road (1957).