Taxonomy vs Misfit - What's the difference?
taxonomy | misfit |
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.
An ill-fitting garment.
A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 94:
A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc.
* 2008 , Adrian Blomfield, "Has Russia got a new Stalin?", :
(intransitive) To fit badly.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and misfit
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while misfit is an ill-fitting garment.As a verb misfit is
(intransitive) to fit badly.taxonomy
English
(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee 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 * ontologymisfit
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Noun
(en noun)- And the fact that Christianity's Jesus is the resurrected Christ makes a vital point about the misfit between the Jesus whose teachings we have excavated and the Church which came after him.
- Just to be on the safe side, the Kremlin has also banned any of Putin's serious critics from standing. Three unelectable misfits have been allowed to mount token challenges.
- ''She was very unhappy in .
- The MBA was a misfit when stuck in a meeting with the programmers.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- His suit was misfitted and looked awkward.