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Taxonomy vs Conjurer - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and conjurer

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while conjurer is one who conjures, a magician.

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

    conjurer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * conjuror * conjurour (qualifier)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who conjures, a magician.
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.
  • * 1594' ''His incivility confirms no less. Good Doctor Pinch, you are a '''conjurer ; Establish him in his true sense again, And I will please you what you will demand.'' — Shakespeare, ''A Comedy of Errors , Act 4, Scene 4.
  • One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.
  • * 1893' ''The man is by trade a '''conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
  • One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
  • (obsolete) One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.
    • (Addison)