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taxonomy | embase |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As a verb embase is

physically to lower.

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

    embase

    English

    Verb

    (embas)
  • (obsolete) Physically to lower.
    • Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. — Sylvester.
  • (obsolete) To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • *:And either vowd with all their power and witt / To let not others honour be defaste / Of friend or foe, who ever it embaste [...].
    • Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. — South.
  • (obsolete) To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.
    • Alloy in coin of gold may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. — Francis Bacon.