Taxonomy vs Monsterise - What's the difference?
taxonomy | monsterise |
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.
To give (another) very bad reputation; to demonize, vilify.
* 1851 , The British Friend , Volume 9, page 22
* 1997 , Harry M. Benshoff, Monsters in the closet: homosexuality and the horror film , page 330
* 2005 , Outlook , Volume 45, Issues 9-16
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As a verb monsterise is
to give (another) very bad reputation; to demonize, vilify.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 * ontologymonsterise
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Alternative forms
* monsterizeVerb
(monsteris)- and it would seem, as if to atone for that deficiency in the eyes of " a hero worshipper," that Macaulay had determined to monsterise him into an embodiment of inconsistency, deceit, and simulation.
- (quite literally monsterise ) queer sexuality, and what the pleasures and costs of such representations might be for both individual spectators and culture at large.
- A similarity that runs deeper than the differences in these two unrelated incidents, these separate times that we have allocated to monsterising and mortifying our teenagers.
