different between vandalize vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• vandalise (chiefly British)

Etymology

vandal +? -ize

Verb

vandalize (third-person singular simple present vandalizes, present participle vandalizing, simple past and past participle vandalized)

1. US, Canada, and Oxford British English standard spelling of vandalise.

Derived terms

• vandalisation, vandalization

Related terms

• vandal
• vandalism

Translations

Portuguese

Verb

vandalize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of vandalizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of vandalizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of vandalizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of vandalizar

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

Translations