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Taxonomy vs Trammel - What's the difference?

taxonomy | trammel |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and trammel

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while trammel is whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.

As a verb trammel is

to entangle, as in a net.

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

    trammel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
  • * (rfdate) (Jeffrey)
    • [They] disdain the trammels of any sordid contract.
  • *
  • A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
  • A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
    • (Carew)
  • A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
  • A net for confining a woman's hair.
  • * (Spenser)
  • A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
  • (engineering) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
  • A beam compass

    • Verb

    (trammell) (UK ) (en-verb) (US )
  • To entangle, as in a net.
  • * 1880 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , lines 9-10
    • ''the scarce-snatched hours
    ''Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers: —
    ''Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars.
  • To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
  • * 1948 , Winston Churchill,
    • Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.