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taxonomy | leashed |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As a verb leashed is

(leash).

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

    leashed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (leash)

    • leash

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
  • * Shakespeare
    • like a fawning greyhound in the leash
  • A brace and a half; a tierce.
  • A set of three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
  • * 1597 , , by Shakespeare
    • Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
  • * 1663 ,
    • It had an odd promiscuous tone, / As if h' had talk'd three parts in one; / Which made some think, when he did gabble, / Th' had heard three labourers of Babel; / Or Cerberus himself pronounce / A leash of languages at once.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • [I] kept my chamber a leash of days.
  • * Tennyson
    • Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.
  • A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
  • (surfing) A leg rope.
    • 1980: Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year'' — ''As Years Roll By (1970's Retrospective) , Drew Kampion, magazine, February 1980, page 43. Quoted at surfresearch.com.au glossary[http://www.surfresearch.com.au/agl.html].

    Synonyms

    * (strap or cord used to restrain a dog)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To fasten or secure with a leash.
  • (figuratively) to curb, restrain
  • * 1919 , :
    • Man is brow-beaten, leashed , muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

    Antonyms

    * unleash

    References

    * * (Webster 1913)

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