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Taxonomy vs Shroud - What's the difference?

taxonomy | shroud |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and shroud

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while shroud is that which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

As a verb shroud is

to cover with a shroud.

taxonomy

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See 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 * ontology

    shroud

    English

    (wikipedia shroud)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  • * Sandys
  • swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
  • Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  • * Shakespeare
  • a dead man in his shroud
  • That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  • * Byron
  • Jura answers through her misty shroud .
  • A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  • * Chapman
  • The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
  • * Withals
  • a vault, or shroud , as under a church
  • The branching top of a tree; foliage.
  • * '>citation
  • (nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
  • * See also Wikipedia article on
  • One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover with a shroud.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
  • To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
  • The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
    The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
  • One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
  • * Dryden
  • Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.
  • To take shelter or harbour.
  • * Milton
  • If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.