Taxonomy vs Whiffle - What's the difference?
taxonomy | whiffle |
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.
A short blow or gust
(obsolete) Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
(obsolete) A fife or small flute.
to blow a short gust
to waffle, talk aimlessly
(British) to waste time
to travel quickly, whizz, whistle, with an accompanying wind-like sound
(ornithology, of a bird) to descending rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other
To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
* I. Watts
To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and whiffle
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while whiffle is a short blow or gust.As a verb whiffle is
to blow a short gust.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 * ontologywhiffle
English
(whiffling)Alternative forms
* wiffleNoun
(en noun)- (Douce)
Verb
(whiffl)- (Dampier)
- A person of whiffling and unsteady turn of mind cannot keep close to a point of controversy.
