Taxonomy vs Extemporize - What's the difference?
taxonomy | extemporize |
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.
To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
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To do, create, improvise, adapt, or devise in an impromptu or spontaneous manner.
* 1860 , , The Marble Faun , ch. 10:
* 1879 , , Evolution, Old & New , ch. 5:
* 1906 , , The Dynasts , Part Second, Act Third:
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As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As a verb extemporize is
to do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.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 * ontologyextemporize
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Alternative forms
* extemporise (mostly Commonwealth)Verb
(extemporiz)- "Will you please tell me whose music you have been playing?" . . .
- "It's nobody's, miss."
- "Do you mean you have been extemporizing all this time?"
The (very) scripted president," New York Times (retrieved 8 Nov 2011):
- But while some of his predecessors liked to extemporize , Obama prefers the message to be just so.
- As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes.
- The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.
- The wine runs into pitchers, washing-basins, shards, chamber- vessels, and other extemporized receptacles.
How King Shaped The Dream," New York Times (retrieved 8 Nov 2011):
- His most famous words — "I have a dream" — were extemporized .