Taxonomy vs Monocular - What's the difference?
taxonomy | monocular |
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.
Having one eye.
* 1888, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
*:...one of his sparks alighted upon my eye and destroyed it making me a monocular ape;
Related to a monocle.
* 1906, Amelia Barr, The Man Between
Of any optical system suitable for use by one eye at a time.
(rare) A monocle.
* 1906, Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and monocular
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while monocular is (rare) a monocle.As an adjective monocular is
having one eye.taxonomy
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(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 * ontologymonocular
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Adjective
(head)- You are not such a foolish woman as to like to be seen with Fred Mostyn, that little monocular snob, after the aristocratic, handsome Basil Stanhope.
Noun
(en noun)- The moony monocular set in his eye / Appeared to be scanning the Sweet Bye-and-Bye.