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Taxonomy vs Marplot - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and marplot

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while marplot is a meddlesome person whose activity interferes with the plans of others.

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

    marplot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A meddlesome person whose activity interferes with the plans of others.
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XI
  • *:“The old marplot has discovered the baby,” Monica whispered. “I suppose it cried and woke him up, and now he thinks he's witness to a miracle.”
  • *2012 , (Michael Burleigh), ‘Keeping the Flame Alive’, Literary Review , 402:
  • *:Unthinking Anglo-Saxons regard him as a Gallic marplot , rather than the great twentieth-century statesman he was – certainly the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon.

    • See also

    * gatecrasher, interloper, peeping tom, persona non grata, encroacher, backseat driver, kibitzer, meddler, nosy parker, intruder, buttinsky, busybody, yenta