Taxonomy vs Coign - What's the difference?
taxonomy | coign |
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 projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses
*:Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street.
* 1936 , William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!!
* 1964 , Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun
* 1977 , Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane , ISBN 0-345-34865-6, page 212
* 2007 , Stephen R. Donaldson, Fatal Revenant , ISBN 978-0-399-15446-1, page 3
The keystone of an arch
A wedge used in typesetting
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and coign
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while coign is a projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone.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 * ontologycoign
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Noun
(en noun)- this snug monastic coign , this dreamy and heatless alcove of what we call the best of thought.
- They lay quietly as the morning advanced its little way, hid snug in their greenwood coign . —
- The wall was intricately labored—lined and coigned and serried with regular and irregular groups of windows, balconies, buttresses ...
- In sunshine as vivid as revelation, Linden Avery knelt on the stone of a low-walled coign like a balcony high in the outward face of Revelstone's watchtower.