Taxies vs. Taxis — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Taxies and Taxis
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Taxies
A taxicab.
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Taxis
A taxis (plural taxes , from Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis) 'arrangement') is the movement of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light or the presence of food. Taxes are innate behavioural responses.
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Taxies
To be transported by taxi.
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Taxis
(Biology) The responsive movement of a free-moving organism or cell toward or away from an external stimulus, such as light.
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Taxies
To move slowly on the ground or on the surface of the water before takeoff or after landing
An airplane taxiing down the runway.
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Taxis
(Medicine) The moving of a body part by manipulation into normal position, as after a dislocation, fracture, or hernia.
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Taxies
To transport by or as if by taxi
Taxied the children to dance class.
Taxi documents to a law office.
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Taxis
(biology) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
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Taxies
To cause (an aircraft) to taxi.
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Taxis
(medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after dislocation or fracture.
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Taxies
Plural of taxi(irregular)
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Taxis
(rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
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Taxis
Arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar
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Taxis
(historical) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.
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Taxis
Plural of taxi
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Taxis
Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
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Taxis
In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
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Taxis
A reflexive movement by a motile organism by which it moves or orients itself in relation to some source of stimulation; as, chemotaxis, the motion toward or away from gradients of certain chemical compounds.
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Taxis
A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
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Taxis
The surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part
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