What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Taxonomy vs Yokefellow - What's the difference?

taxonomy | yokefellow |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and yokefellow

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while yokefellow is (archaic) a companion.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia 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

    yokefellow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A companion.
  • * 1882 , Edward Augustus Freeman, The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First?
    • ...till new grounds of quarrel had arisen between the two unequal yokefellows who were at last fully coupled together.
  • * 1922 , James Ezra Darby, Jesus, an economic mediator: God's remedy for industrial and international ills
    • Brain and hand, and means and muscle, are true yokefellows in modern industrialism. Without the inventor, there could be no machinery...
  • * 1999 , David E Garland, Reading Matthew: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the First Gospel?
    • Jesus treats his disciples as yokefellows rather than as camels and donkeys to be loaded down (23:4).