Taxonomy vs Glacial - What's the difference?
taxonomy | glacial |
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.
of, or relating to glaciers
* We examined the glacial deposits
(figuratively) very slow
* 2010 , "Under the volcano", The Economist , 16 Oct 2010:
cold and icy
* After the rain and frost, the pavements were glacial
having the appearance of ice
* On cold days, glacial acetic acid will freeze in the bottle
cool and unfriendly
* He gave me a glacial stare
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As a proper noun glacial is
(geology) of the pleistocene period dominated by the presence of glaciers.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 * ontologyglacial
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Progress on judicial reform has been glacial , meeting enormous resistance.