Taxies vs. Taxis — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Taxies and Taxis
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Taxies
A taxicab.
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.
Taxies
To be transported by taxi.
Taxis
(Biology) The responsive movement of a free-moving organism or cell toward or away from an external stimulus, such as light.
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.
Taxies
To transport by or as if by taxi
Taxied the children to dance class.
Taxi documents to a law office.
Taxis
(biology) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
Taxies
To cause (an aircraft) to taxi.
Taxis
(medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after dislocation or fracture.
Taxies
Plural of taxi(irregular)
Taxis
(rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
Taxis
Arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar
Taxis
(historical) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.
Taxis
Plural of taxi
Taxis
Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
Taxis
In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
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.
Taxis
A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
Taxis
The surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part
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