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Taxonomy vs Cookery - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and cookery

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while cookery is the art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.

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

    cookery

    English

    Noun

  • The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
    • Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
  • * 1475 , Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened , subtitle:
    • together with excellent directions for cookery , as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c.
  • (obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
  • * 1839 , John Espy Lovell, "Fish out of water", Rhetorical Dialogues , page 335:
    • I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.
  • (obsolete) Cooking tools or apparatus.
  • * 1800 , Charlotte Yonge, The Little Duke , page 3:
    • She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward...
  • * 1934 , Gray Owl, Pilgrims of the Wild , page 101:
    • ...and would not be just dead weight, as on the trail it could conveniently be filled with the cookery and other odds and ends...
  • (figurative) Making something appear better than it is; altering or falsifying records; 'window dressing'.
  • * 1871 [380 BCE], Plato, Gorgias , tr. Benjamin Jowett:
    • Cookery , then, I maintain to be a flattery which takes the form of medicine...
  • * 1997 , Leon Mayhew, The New Public , page 22–3:
    • Yet ever since Plato claimed that rhetoric is only a knack of making the worse appear the better cause – a form of "cookery " – rhetorical theories of social order have been under attack...