Taxonomy vs Crib - What's the difference?
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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.
(Canada) A small raft made of timber.
To place or confine in a crib.
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
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* Shakespeare
To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
(obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
(Indian English) To complain, to grumble
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To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
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(of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and crib
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while crib is (us) a baby’s bed (british and australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.As a verb crib is
to place or confine in a crib.taxonomy
English
(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 * ontologycrib
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Synonyms
* (holiday home) bach (qualifier)Derived terms
* crib mattress * crib sheet * crib death * crib boardVerb
(cribb)- if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
- Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.
- I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
- It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it?'' — Charles Dickens, ''Dombey and Son , 1848,
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- Who sought to make bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.