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Taxonomy vs Spall - What's the difference?

taxonomy | spall |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and spall

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while spall is a splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.

As a verb spall is

to break into fragments or small pieces.

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

    spall

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    *spawl

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.
  • *1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 13:
  • *:My father knew Bert Le Feuvre, the foreman of Griffith's yard, and there was a little heap of spawls waiting ready every night in summer after school for me to crack.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break into fragments or small pieces.
  • (Pryce)
  • To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) spalla.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, rare) The shoulder.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
  • Their mightie strokes their haberieons dismayld, / And naked made each others manly spalles [...].

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