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Taxonomy vs Liquidate - What's the difference?

taxonomy | liquidate |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As a verb liquidate is

to settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.

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

    liquidate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
  • * W. Coxe
  • Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.
  • To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
  • To convert (assets) into cash.
  • To do away with.
  • To kill.
  • (legal) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
  • * 15 Ga. Rep. 821
  • A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.
  • * Chesterfield
  • If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated , I believe you would be brought in considerably debtor.
  • (obsolete) To make clear and intelligible.
  • * A. Hamilton
  • Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.
  • (obsolete) To make liquid.
  • Synonyms

    * (to settle the affairs) conclude * (to kill)

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