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taxonomy | dateless |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective dateless is

out of one's head; deranged or dateless can be without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.

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

    dateless

    English

    Etymology 1

    . See also deedless.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Out of one's head; deranged.
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  • (British, dialect, slang) thick-headed
    • They're so dateless that Burger King will not offer them a job.
  • * {{quote-book, 1997, , Loitering with Intent: The Apprentice, page=281 citation
    • , passage=Into the court you'd swanned, you dateless little pillock, if not wholly confident of winning, surely careless of losing.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1976, Fred Beake, Legends from Mammon, page=8 citation
    • , passage=You dateless fool, you stupid ass, clamped to / This crag for all eternity}}
  • * {{quote-news, 2001, August 4, Lynne Walker, Classical: Musical portrait of the artist as a young man, The Independent citation
    • , passage="You dateless article," stormed his father, leaving Bennett to realise in his laconic way that he was, and probably always would be, a disappointment to Dad.}}

    Etymology 2

    Coined between 1585 and 1595 from “Dateless” at Dictionary.com][http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dateless “Dateless” in Merriam-Webster

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.
  • Having no date—a meeting with a lover or potential lover.
    • It is hard to believe that she could be dateless on a Saturday night.
  • Timeless; immortal
  • Without a start; immemorial
  • (archaic) Without an end; endless
  • * William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXX ,
    • Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, / For precious friends hid in death's dateless night

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