different between inhumation vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From inhume +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n.hju??me?.??n/

Noun

inhumation (countable and uncountable, plural inhumations)

1. The act of burial.
   • 1885, "Cremation or Burial," New York Times, 18 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):

     "Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.

   • 2010, Eti Bonn-Muller, "Dynasty of Priestesses," archaeology.org, 10 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):

     Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.

2. The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
3. (medicine) arenation

Synonyms

• burial, entombment, interment

Antonyms

• disinterment, exhumation

Translations

French

Etymology

inhumer +? -ation

Pronunciation

Noun

inhumation f (plural inhumations)

1. inhumation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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