Taxonomy vs Drear - What's the difference?
taxonomy | drear |
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.
(poetic) Dreary.
* 1794, , lines 1-2
* 1874 ,
* 1922 , , XXVIII, lines 1-2
(obsolete) Gloom; sadness.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.2:
*:She thankt him deare / Both for that newes he did to her impart, / And for the courteous care which he did beare / Both to her love and to her selfe in that sad dreare .
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and drear
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while drear is (obsolete) gloom; sadness.As an adjective drear is
(poetic) dreary.taxonomy
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(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 * ontologydrear
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Earth raised up her head
From the darkness dread and drear ,
- I spoke, perplexed by something in the signs
Of desolation I had seen and heard
In this drear pilgrimage to ruined shrines:
- Now dreary dawns the eastern light,
And fall of eve is drear ,