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Taxonomy vs Cohort - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and cohort

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while cohort is a group of people supporting the same thing or person.

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

    cohort

    English

    (wikipedia cohort)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
  • * 1887 July, (w), '', in (Popular Science Monthly) , Volume 31,
    • Coyness and caprice have in consequence become a heritage of the sex, together with a cohort of allied weaknesses and petty deceits, that men have come to think venial, and even amiable, in women, but which they would not tolerate among themselves.
  • * 1916 , (James Joyce), , Chapter III,
    • A sin, an instant of rebellious pride of the intellect, made Lucifer and a third part of the cohort of angels fall from their glory.
  • * 1919 , (Albert Payson Terhune), , Chapter VI: Lost!,
    • A lost dog? — Yes. No succoring cohort surges to the relief. A gang of boys, perhaps, may give chase, but assuredly not in kindness.
  • (statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.
    • The 18-24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.
  • (military, history) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.
    • Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.
  • * 1900 , , 5.20,
    • But he lost the whole of his first cohort' and the centurion of the first line, a man of high rank in his own class, Asinius Dento, and the other centurions of the same ' cohort , as well as a military tribune, Sext. Lucilius, son of T. Gavius Caepio, a man of wealth, and high position.
  • * 1910 , (Arthur Conan Doyle)'', '' ,
    • But here it is as clear as words can make it: 'Bring every man of the Legions by forced marches to the help of the Empire. Leave not a cohort in Britain.' These are my orders.
  • * 1913 , '', article in ''(Catholic Encyclopedia) ,
    • The cohort in which he was centurion was probably the Cohors II Italica civium Romanorum , which a recently discovered inscription proves to have been stationed in Syria before A.D. 69.
  • An accomplice; abettor; associate.
    • He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts , as well as the source of the information.
  • Any band or body of warriors.
  • * 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost
    • With him the cohort bright / Of watchful cherubim.
  • (taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
  • A colleague.