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Definition: Taxis |
TaxisNoun1. A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism. 2. The surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "taxis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Taxis ["A Language Facility for Designing Database-Intensive Applications", J. Mylopoulos et al, ACM Trans Database Sys 5(2):185-207 (June 1980)]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Biology & Biotechnology | Stimulus response movements that are. . . readily observed in the lower animals. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: TaxisSynonym: Taxicabs. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrangement | Noun: arrangement; plan; preparation; disposal, disposition; collocation, allocation; distribution; sorting; Verb: assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization; grouping; tabulation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Taxis |
| English words defined with "taxis": beep, blare ♦ cabstand, claxon ♦ honk ♦ taxistand, toot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "taxis": General Aviation ♦ taxi service ♦ -taxis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Taxis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (taxis), German (cabs, taxicabs, taxis), Hungarian (cabby), Latin (taxi dancer, taxis), Portuguese (cabs), Spanish (cabs, taxicabs, taxis). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I can do with hookers and taxis. (Hard Core Logo; writing credit: Noel S. Baker; Michael Turner) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Thundering Taxis (1933) Line of Taxis (1999) Thron und Taxis (1984) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | OA-10A Thunderbolt II taxis to a parking spot. |  | A German Air Force MiG-29 Fulcrum from the 73rd Fighter Squadron, Laage Air Base, Germany, taxis out with a U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 355th FS, Aviano AB, Italy. The 555th is deployed here to learn how to fly against the MiG-29s. (Photo. |
 | C-17 Globemaster III taxis down the runway. |  | Northern Watch - F-16CJ taxis after mission. |
 | KC-10 taxis at dawn. |  | Allied Force - C-5 taxis at RAF Mildenhall. |
 | Grond crew directing airplane (4-prop) as it taxis on runway at Roswell Air Tanker Base, New Mexico. Credit: H. Parman. |  | A F/A-18 "Hornet" of VFA-137 taxis forward through catapult steam, during flight operations on 18 January 1988. Photographed by PH2(AW) Wayne Edwards. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Taxis at station. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Taxis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Taxi time" by Jessica Poli Commentary: "Taxis in times square." | "Knightsbridge" by T. Al Nakib Commentary: "A night photo of a consistent traffic including a line of taxis. In the background, Harrods with its night lights." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Car rentals or taxis are the most frequent form of transportation. (references) | |
There are 3.3 million vehicles, out of which 40,000 taxis, circulating in Greece and 490,000 motorbikes. (references) | ||
Surface transportation is provided by car hire companies, bus and coach lines, mini bus taxis and passenger train services. (references) | ||
Children | United Kingdom | Government regulations require that all new buildings meet the access requirements of all persons with impaired mobility and that all taxis be wheelchair accessible; similar regulations are in force for sensory-impaired persons. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Equatorial Guinea | Local police routinely extort bribes from occupants of cars, taxis, and other vehicles traveling outside the capital. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | Although Mba Bela did not justify his order, the press had criticized him for imposing a new regulation on city taxis prior to the order. (references) | |
Economic History | Bahamas | Used limousines are particularly prized for use as taxis. (references) |
Nepal | An electric vehicle project sponsored by USAID has led to a demand for small electric taxis. (references) | |
Cyprus | Land transport in this island is performed by vehicles only (private or company vehicles and taxis). (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | In Karachi small squads of police stopped taxis and delivery trucks for bribes. (references) |
South Africa | During the year in KwaZulu-Natal, four taxi ranks, which are places designated by the municipality as a pick-up and drop-off point for taxis, temporarily were closed as a result of escalating violence between two factions. (references) | |
South Africa | On September 16, seven persons were killed near Mount Frere in Eastern Cape Province, including two taxi owners returning from a taxi association national peace conference in Durban, after passengers of two vehicles following the convoy of taxis returning from the conference shot at the convoy. (references) | |
Trade | Ecuador | The government has temporarily allowed the importation of used vehicles (up to three years old) for public transportation (i.e. buses and taxis). (references) |
Travel | Azerbaijan | Taxis do not have meters. (references) |
Panama | Taxis may be shared with other passengers. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Yugoslavia | In June taxis blocked roads throughout the country to protest the Government's policy on taxi drivers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Taxis" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Taxis" is used about 305 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 305 | 16,573 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "taxis": taxis-like. | |
Ending with "taxis": water-taxis. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "taxis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | ръчно наместване на става, рефлекторно движение, ред (arrangement, cast, course, discipline, inning, kilter, method, order, orderliness, placement, rank, row, run, sequence, series, set, shape, tier, train, turn, variety), древногръцка военна част. (various references) | |
Chinese | 出租汽车 (taxi). (various references) | |
Danish | taxi (taxi, taxi cab), taksi (stimulus response movements that are...readily observed in the lower animals). (various references) | |
Dutch | taxis (stimulus response movements that are...readily observed in the lower animals). (various references) | |
Finnish | taksia (stimulus response movements that are...readily observed in the lower animals), suuntausliike. (various references) | |
French | taxis, taxie, tactisme. (various references) | |
German | taxis (cabs, taxicabs). (various references) | |
Greek | τάξη (category, class, grade, neatness, order, orderliness, range, rank, rate, rating, set, taxon, trim), τακτισμός. (various references) | |
Irish | tacsaithe. (various references) | |
Italian | tattismo, tassia (stimulus response movements that are...readily observed in the lower animals). (various references) | |
Korean | 택시 (Cab, CABS, taxi). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | axistay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tactismo. (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | táxis. (various references) | |
Russian | таксис, такси (cab, taxi, taxicab), ответная реакция организма. (various references) | |
Spanish | taxis (cabs, taxicabs). (various references) | |
Swedish | taxis (stimulus response movements that are...readily observed in the lower animals), taxi (cab, hack, taxi, taxicab). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | taxis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "taxis": chemotaxis, epistaxis, geotaxis, hypotaxis, parataxis, phototaxis, phyllotaxis, telotaxis, thermotaxis, thigmotaxis, tropotaxis. (additional references) | |
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"Taxis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ataxis, faxis, staxis, tais, taiz, Ta'iz, taji, talis, tanis, taui, tavi, tavis, taxa, Taxal, taxeds, taxers, taxest, taxid, taxie, taxil, taxim, taxip, taxit, taxo, taxons, taxs, taxy, Tayib, tazi, texass, texi, texus, thaxis, tixic, toaxi, toxia, toxid, toxie, toxies, toxir, toxity, tucxi, tuxi, txai, Txaiz, Txii, Tzakis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "taxis" (pronounced ta"ksēz) |
| 5 | -a" k s ē z | maxis. |
| 4 | -k s ē z | galaxies, proxies. |
| 3 | -s ē z | accuracies, agencies, archdiocese, autopsies, conspiracies, constituencies, contingencies, controversies, bankruptcies, biopsies, bureaucracies, candidacies, competencies, courtesies, crises, cruces, currencies, deficiencies, delicacies, delinquencies, democracies, dependencies, diagnoses, discrepancies, efficiencies, embassies, emergencies, epilepsies, excellencies, exigencies, expectancies, fallacies, fancies, fantasies, frequencies, gypsies, inaccuracies, inadequacies, inconsistencies, inefficiencies, insolvencies, insurgencies, intricacies, jealousies, legacies, malignancies, mercies, misdiagnoses, nazis, neuroses, oases, patsies, pharmacies, policies, posses, pregnancies, presidencies, privacies, prognoses, prophecies, prostheses, redundancies, residencies, tendencies, theses, transparencies, vacancies. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-s-t-x" | |
-1 letter: aits, axis, sati, taxi. | |
-2 letters: ais, ait, its, sat, sax, sit, six, tas, tax, tis, xis. | |
-3 letters: ai, as, at, ax, is, it, si, ta, ti, xi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-s-t-x" | |
+1 letter: axites, mastix, taxies. | |
+2 letters: antisex, ataxias, ataxics, ataxies, fixates, oxtails, sextain, taxites, taxwise, waxiest. | |
+3 letters: auxetics, bauxites, cathexis, dystaxia, eutaxies, expiates, fixatifs, flaxiest, foxtails, geotaxis, laxities, mastixes, matrixes, oxidants, oxidates, saxatile, sextains, sextarii, taxicabs, taxiways, toxemias, transfix, xanthins. | |
+4 letters: anatoxins, antefixes, anxieties, ataraxias, ataraxics, ataraxies, catalexis, dystaxias, epistaxes, epistaxis, epitaxies, exactions, excitants, expiators, exsiccate, exuviates, fixations, fixatives, hypotaxis, laxations, laxatives, luxations, maxicoats, maximites, parataxis, postaxial, saxitoxin, sextarius, sexuality, surtaxing, taxations, telotaxis, testatrix, toxaemias, toxicants, transfixt, vexations, vexatious, xantheins, xanthines. | |
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