Definitions for taxis

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taxis tax·is

Spelling: [tak-sis]

IPA: /ˈtæk sɪs/

Taxis is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in taxis (aistx).

Definitions for taxis

noun

1. arrangement or order, as in one of the physical sciences.
2. Biology. oriented movement of a motile organism in response to an external stimulus, as toward or away from light.
3. Surgery. the replacing of a displaced part, or the reducing of a hernia or the like, by manipulation without cutting.
4. Architecture. the adaptation to the purposes of a building of its various parts.
5. a plural of taxi.
6. a taxicab.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause (an airplane) to taxi.

verb (used without object)

1. to ride or travel in a taxicab.
2. (of an airplane) to move over the surface of the ground or water under its own power.

Origin of taxis

1720-30; New Latin Greek táxis, equivalent to tak- (base of tássein to arrange, put in order) + -sis -sis

Examples for taxis

And as all the taxis have been taken I—I—— But you haven't room.

There was a cab rank some fifty paces beyond, with three taxis stationed there.

Yes; she's so keen on the trap, and the amount it saves in taxis and carriers.

What has become of all the cabs which have been displaced by the taxis?

Promises every avenue in Manhattan will have a dedicated lane for trucks, taxis, and private automobiles between new bike paths.

Two Ukrainian journalists were recently yanked out of taxis and beaten savagely, one shot in the chest and killed.

There were taxis, called “hackneys,” which were rickety stagecoaches cast off by the rich and repurposed as transport for hire.

Services like Airbnb, Yelp, and yes, Uber are disrupting long-established industries, from taxis to hotels.

Railway tickets, and taxis, and motor-cycles, to begin with.

Of course, harassment happens in taxis just as it does in ridesharing vehicles.