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taxonomy | falsify |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As a verb falsify is

to alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.

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

    falsify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
  • to falsify a record or document
  • * Spenser
  • The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
  • To misrepresent.
  • To prove to be false.
  • * Shakespeare
  • By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.
  • * Addison
  • Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.
  • To counterfeit; to forge.
  • to falsify coin
  • (finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
  • (Story)
    (Daniell)
  • (obsolete) To baffle or escape.
  • * Samuel Butler
  • For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe
  • (obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.
  • to falsify one's faith or word
    (Sir Philip Sidney)

    Derived terms

    * falsifiable * falsifiability * falsification * falsificationism * falsifier