Taxonomy vs Tranq - What's the difference?
taxonomy | tranq |
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.
(slang) A tranquilizer.
* 1982 , Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi
* 1992 , Sisters of Mercy, Alice (song)
(slang) To tranquilize.
* 2007 , Michele LeBlanc, Belt Buckles and Pajamas (page 65)
* 2008 , Charlotte Boyett-Compo, In the Arms of the Wind (page 144)
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and tranq
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while tranq is (slang) a tranquilizer.As a verb tranq is
(slang|transitive) to tranquilize.taxonomy
English
(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 * ontologytranq
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I gave her a tranq ," he said with anguish. "She asked for one and I found this bottle in the medicine cabinet and gave it to her."
- She needs you like she needs her tranqs / To tell her that the world is clean.
Verb
(en verb)- He was about to stand up and start on another rant, which only would have led to Sam tranqing him.
- He fumbled at the dart but the needle was barbed and wouldn't come out. His fingers slid from it as a powerful numbness began to creep over his extremities. “Got him!” the man who had tranqed him shouted to his buddies.