different between shoutbox vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

shout +? box

Noun

shoutbox (plural shoutboxes)

1. (Internet) A tagboard.
   • 2007, Nancy K. Baym, The new shape of online community: The example of Swedish independent music fandom

     They avail themselves of multiple communicative platforms across the Internet: blogs, social networks, comments, discussion forums, private messages, shoutboxes, MP3 files, and videos.

   • 2010, Erika Blanchard, Appity Slap: A Small Business Guide to Web Apps, Tech Tools and Cloud Computing

     Embed a shoutbox in your blog/website for your visitors to interact among themselves.

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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