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Taxonomy vs Discount - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and discount

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while discount is discount (reduction in price).

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

    discount

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.
  • Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
  • To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
  • * Walsh
  • Discount only unexceptionable paper.
  • To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
  • To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
  • * Sir William Hamilton
  • Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.
  • :They discounted his comments.
  • To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reduction in price.
  • A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
  • The rate of interest charged in discounting.
  • Synonyms

    * (reduction in price) rebate, reduction

    Antonyms

    * surcharge

    Derived terms

    * quantity discount * rediscount * seasonal discount

    Descendants

    * German:

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.
  • This store specializes in discount wares.
  • Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.
  • If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.

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