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taxonomy | forslow |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As a verb forslow is

to be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.

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

    forslow

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
  • *1599 , (Ben Jonson), Every Man out of His Humour , V.8:
  • *:If you can think upon any present means for his delivery, do not foreslow it.
  • (obsolete) To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
  • *:But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […].
  • *1682 , (John Dryden), Epistles , XIII:
  • *:The wond'ring Nereids, though they rais'd no storm, / Foreslow'd her passage, to behold her form.
  • (obsolete) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
  • *c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), Henry VI, Part 3 :
  • *:Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.

    • Derived terms

    * (l)