Taxonomy vs Outcast - What's the difference?
taxonomy | outcast |
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 cast out; to banish.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
* Longfellow
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and outcast
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while outcast is one that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah.As a verb outcast is
to cast out; to banish.As an adjective outcast is
that has been cast out; banished, ostracized.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 * ontologyoutcast
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Verb
- All as a blazing starre doth farre outcast / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes dispredd [...].
Adjective
(en adjective)- Outcast , rejected.