taxis

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
taxis /ˈtaksɪs/

▶noun (pl. taxes /ˈtaksiːz/)

• 1 Surgery the restoration of displaced bones or organs by manual pressure alone.

• 2 Biology a motion or orientation of a cell, organism, or part in response to an external stimulus. Compare with kinesis.

• 3 Linguistics the systematic arrangement of linguistic units in linear sequence.

– origin C18: from Gk, lit. ‘arrangement’, from tassein ‘arrange’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
taxi/ˈtaksi/

▶noun (pl. taxis) a motor vehicle licensed to transport passengers in return for payment of a fare. ▶verb (taxis, taxiing, taxied)

• 1 (with reference to an aircraft) move slowly along the ground before take-off or after landing.

• 2 travel in a taxi.

– origin early 20th cent.: abbrev. of taxicab or taximeter cab.