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taxonomy | sole |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As a verb sole is

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taxonomy

English

(wikipedia 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

    sole

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

    • Etymology 3

    From earlier . See above.

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (sol)
  • To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (-)
  • only
  • (legal) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.

    • Etymology 5

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from Old English. Reinforced by (etyl), (etyl) sole, from . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
  • The bottom of a shoe or boot.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • The caliga was a military shoe, with a very thick sole , tied above the instep.
  • (obsolete) The foot itself.
  • * Bible, Genesis viii. 9
    • The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
  • * Spenser
    • Hast wandered through the world now long a day, / Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead.
  • Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae .
  • The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
  • # The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
  • # The bottom of a furrow.
  • # The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
  • # (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
  • # (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
  • (Totten)
  • (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
    • Synonyms
    * (bottom of the foot''): planta (''medical term )
    Derived terms
    * insole * midsole *

    Verb

    (sol)
  • to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
    • Derived terms
    * resole

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