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Taxonomy vs Lexical - What's the difference?

taxonomy | lexical |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective lexical is

(linguistics) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language.

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

    lexical

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (linguistics) concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language
  • *
  • So, it seems clear that the idiosyncratic restrictions relating to the range of
    complements which a Preposition does or does not permit are directly analo-
    gous to the parallel restrictions which hold in the case of Verbs. The restric-
    tions concerned are not categorial'' in nature (i.e. they are not associated with
    every single item belonging to a given category): on the contrary, they are
    ''lexical
    in nature (that is to say, they are properties of individual lexical items,
    so that different words belonging to the same category permit a different range
    of complements).
  • (linguistics) concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary
  • Derived terms

    * bilexical * lexical analysis * lexical analyzer * lexical definition * lexical item * lexicality * lexically * lexical semantics * lexical unit * monolexical * polylexical