Taxonomy vs Prophesy - What's the difference?
taxonomy | prophesy |
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 speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.
To predict, to foretell.
* Bible, 1 Kings xxii. 8
* Shakespeare
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 745:
To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
* Shakespeare
(Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As a verb prophesy is
to speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.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 * ontologyprophesy
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Verb
(en-verb)- He doth not prophesy good concerning me.
- Then I perceive that will be verified / Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy .
- ‘It has been prophesied more than once that he will find it.’
- Methought thy very gait did prophesy / A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee.