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Taxonomy vs Countification - What's the difference?

taxonomy | countification |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and countification

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while countification is (rare|linguistics) the conversion of a noncountable noun to a countable noun form.

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

    countification

    English

    Noun

  • (rare, linguistics) The conversion of a noncountable noun to a countable noun form.
  • * 1969 , The Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian-English Contrastive Project
    • With some mass and abstract nouns, "countification" is accompanied by a shift of meaning: paper (SC papir) vs. a paper (SC novine, dokument)...
  • * 1995 , "Marilyn Martin", Article question redux'' (on Internet newsgroup ''bit.listserv.tesl-l )
    • The use of A with GRAIN gives the class membership of the item and illustrates the "countification" of mass nouns, with the deletion of the understood "type(s) of."
  • * 2010 , Ben Zimmer, New York Times (24 May 2010)
    • The countification of e-mail mirrors some other recent developments in tech-talk.

    Related terms

    *countify

    References

    [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09FOB-onlanguage-t.html] Zimmer, Ben (May 7, 2010). "The Plural of E-Mail". The New York Times . Retrieved May 24, 2010.