Taxonomy vs Falsify - What's the difference?
taxonomy | falsify |
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 alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
* Spenser
To misrepresent.
To prove to be false.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
To counterfeit; to forge.
(finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
(obsolete) To baffle or escape.
* Samuel Butler
(obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.
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
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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 * ontologyfalsify
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Verb
(en-verb)- to falsify a record or document
- The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
- By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.
- Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.
- to falsify coin
- (Story)
- (Daniell)
- 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
- to falsify one's faith or word
- (Sir Philip Sidney)