Taxonomy vs Whereupon - What's the difference?
taxonomy | whereupon |
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.
After which, in consequence.
Upon which.
* 1835 , John Nichols, The Gentleman's Magazine , volume 158, page 495:
* 1846 , John Clarke Crosthwaite, Alexander Watson, Practical sermons, by dignitaries and other clergymen , page 270:
* 1880 , Cassell's family magazine , page 262:
* 1889 , Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly , volume 27, page 78:
* 1907 , Francis Bazley Lee, Genealogical and personal memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey , volume 2, page 530:
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As a conjunction whereupon is
after which, in consequence.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 * ontologywhereupon
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Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- The network went down, whereupon I made a cup of tea
- the wet cliff whereupon he stood
- My tender wife and children standing by, / Dewing the death-bed whereupon I lie.
- You see that the Apostle speaks as one who had distinct and certain knowledge of the grounds whereupon he was standing.
- Gradually, however, the white clouds resolved themselves into the snowy linen and coverlets of a bed whereupon he was lying, whilst the crimson light proved to be the effect of a blazing fire, [...]
- He sprung from his bed, whereupon one of them had fired. He pursued them as they retreated, and they fled out of the house by the back door. Thereupon he returned to the bed, saw that his wife had been shot, and roused the servants [...]
- [...] could take no rest except such as he obtained by supporting himself on his knees and elbows, being unable to suffer any part of his body to touch the bed whereupon he lay.
