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Taxonomy vs Conceive - What's the difference?

taxonomy | conceive |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As a verb conceive is

to develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.

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

    conceive

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Verb

    (conceiv)
  • To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
  • * 1606 , , Shakespeare, II-4
    • We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.
  • * Gibbon
    • It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
  • To understand (someone).
  • * Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • I conceive you.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate.
  • (senseid)(intransitive, or, transitive) To become pregnant.
  • * Bible, Luke i. 36
    • She hath also conceived a son in her old age.

    Related terms

    * conceivable * conceiver * concept * conception

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