Taxonomy vs Gaffer - What's the difference?
taxonomy | gaffer |
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.
(film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
A glassblower.
* 2003 , Jennifer Bosveld, Glass Works (page 18)
(colloquial) An old man.
(British) A foreman.
An "Old Gaffer" is a sailor.
In Maritime regions "the Little Gaffer" is the baby in the house.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and gaffer
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while gaffer is rubberneck (undesired spectator a scene of crime or accident).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 * ontologygaffer
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) + (-er). The natural lighting on early film sets was adjusted by opening and closing flaps in the tent cloths, called gaff cloths or gaff flaps.Noun
(en noun)- The apprentice carries a gather of glass on the blowpipe to the gaffer' s bench