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taxonomy | glut |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and glut

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while glut is heat, glow.

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

    glut

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an excess, too much
    • a glut of the market
  • * Macaulay
    • A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
  • * {{quote-news
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  • That which is swallowed.
    • (Milton)
  • Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
  • A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
  • (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
    • (Raymond)
  • (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
    • (Knight)
  • (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
  • A block used for a fulcrum.
  • The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris ), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus

    Antonyms

    * lack * shortage

    Related terms

    * glutton * gluttony

    Verb

  • To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.
    • to glut one's appetite
  • * Charles Kingsley
    • The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
  • To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
  • * Tennyson
    • Like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.

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