Taxonomy vs Prologue - What's the difference?
taxonomy | prologue |
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.
A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=2 One who delivers a prologue.
* 1602 , :
(computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and prologue
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while prologue is a speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.As a verb prologue is
to introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.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 * ontologyprologue
English
(wikipedia prologue)Alternative forms
* prologNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”}}
- And hither am I come, / A Prologue armed, but not in confidence / Of author's pen or actor's voice,
Antonyms
* (speech or section) epilogueDerived terms
* prologise / prologize / prologuise / prologuizeVerb
(prologu)- (Shakespeare)