Taxonomy vs Tormentous - What's the difference?
taxonomy | tormentous |
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.
(rare, dated) Involving or causing torment; having the nature of torture.Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed., 2005.
* 1756 , (author), "Ode 35: To Fortune" in A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace ,
* 1870 , The Annual Register, Volume 111 ,
* 1960 May, "The Loneliest Boy on Capital Hill", Ebony , vol. 15, no. 7,
* 2006 , Jubil Olebode Aka, Blacks Greatest Homeland: Nigeria Is Born Again , ISBN 9780595388974,
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As an adjective tormentous is
(rare|dated) involving or causing torment; having the nature of tortureoxford english dictionary , 3rd ed, 2005.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 * ontologytormentous
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Adjective
(en adjective)p. 129 (Google preview):
- Before thee stalks inexorable Fate,
- And grasps impailing nails and wedges dread,
- The hook tormentous and the melted lead.
p. 264 (Google preview):
- [I]ts greed gave us years tormentous and horrible, like those of Ferdinand VII.
p. 58 (Google preview):
- Few adults could have survived the tormentous , agonizing heartbreak Jimmy endured.
p. 12 (Google preview):
- In Nigeria in particular and Africa generally, there is no winter, no heat-wave, no iceberg, no volcanoes, no hail storms, no devastating wild fires, no tormentous tornadoes or thunderstorms, no deadly floods.