TAXIS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected forms: taxes , taxis

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("taxis" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("taxis" is a kind of...):

reaction; response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "taxis"):

chemotaxis (movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus)

II. (verb)

Sense 1

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb taxi

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Context examples:

I have known her to be thrown into fainting fits by the king's taxes at three o'clock, and to eat lamb chops, breaded, and drink warm ale (paid for with two tea-spoons that had gone to the pawnbroker's) at four.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you give yourself time to do your taxes, chances are you will remember legal deductions you are qualified to take, so it’s wise not to rush this process.