Taxonomy vs Qualify - What's the difference?
taxonomy | qualify |
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 describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
* Macaulay
To certify or license someone for something.
To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
*1598 , Shakespeare,
*:O! never say that I was false of heart,
*:Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.
(juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and qualify
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while qualify is (juggling) an instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.As a verb qualify is
to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.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 * ontologyqualify
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Verb
- He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
- he balmes and herbes thereto applyde, / And euermore with mighty spels them charmd, / That in short space he has them qualifyde , / And him restor'd to health, that would haue algates dyde.
- It hath no larynx to qualify the sound.
