Crossword clues for taxis
taxis
- Urban carriers
- Street sights
- Urban vehicles
- Urban cruisers
- They're hailed by doormen
- Rolls to the runway
- Rides around town
- Hired cars
- Downtown rides
- Cars with meters
- Approaches a terminal
- Uber's adversaries
- Travels along runway
- They pick up and drop off
- They may be Broadway-bound
- Their miles are measured by meters
- Some rides downtown
- Rolls along the runway
- Prepares for takeoff, in a way
- People often catch them when leaving airports
- Moves toward the gate
- LaGuardia lineup
- Imbibers' transportation, ideally
- Horizontal line on a cab's blueprint?
- Heads for the runway
- Heads for the hangar
- Hacks' vehicles
- Coordinate system reference
- Cars with a driver for hire
- Bus alternatives
- Approaches a gate
- Airport hacks
- Airport circlers
- Airport lineup
- Rush hour shortage
- Street fleet
- Prepares for takeoff, say
- Hotel waiters?
- Line at an airport
- Uber competitors
- A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
- The surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part
- Goes from gate to runway
- What many hail in a hailstorm
- Yellow streakers in Gotham
- N.Y.C. has almost 12,000 of these
- Rainy-day scarcities
- Broadway horde
- Cabs
- Occupants of some stands
- Wage deduction is for transport
- Urban fleet
- Cars for hire
- Their business is picking up
- Urban transports
- Prepares for takeoff
- Metered vehicles
- Vehicles with meters
- Uber alternatives
- Prepares to take off
- Fare carriers
- Airport waiters?
- Airport line
- Rolls down the runway
- Rolls down a runway
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taxis \Tax"is\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ta`xis a division or arrangement, fr. ta`ssein to arrange.]
(Surg.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
--Dunglison.In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"operation whereby displaced parts are put back in their natural situation," 1758, medical Latin, from Greek taxis "arrangement, an arranging, the order or disposition of an army, battle array; order, regularity," verbal noun of tassein "arrange," from PIE root *tag- "to set aright, set in order" (see tangent).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context biology English) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus. 2 (context medicine English) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury. 3 (context rhetoric English) The arrangement of the parts of a topic. 4 arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar Etymology 2
WordNet
n. a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part
Wikipedia
A taxis (plural taxes , from the Ancient Greek , meaning "arrangement") is the movement of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light or the presence of food. Taxes are innate behavioral responses. A taxis differs from a tropism (turning response, often growth towards or away from a stimulus) in that the organism has motility and demonstrates guided movement towards or away from the stimulus source. It is sometimes distinguished from a kinesis, a non-directional change in activity in response to a stimulus.
Usage examples of "taxis".
Paris in an infinite number of petty questions as to tenants, abutters, liabilities, taxes, repairs, sweepings, decorations for the Fete-Dieu, waste-pipes, lighting, projections over the public way, and the neighborhood of unhealthy buildings.
Sword has exempted the transaction from taxes in order to accelerate the buy-out.
Carthage was condemned to pay within the term of fifty years, were a slight acknowledgment of the superiority of Rome, and cannot bear the least proportion with the taxes afterwards raised both on the lands and on the persons of the inhabitants, when the fertile coast of Africa was reduced into a province.
The most wealthy families ruined by partial fines and confiscations, and the great body of his subjects oppressed by ingenious and aggravated taxes.
But they paid their taxes to us, albeit with complaining, and we had to discipline them only occasionally, so we managed.
There was a shortage of taxis and we suppose Bunchy had walked so far, hoping to pick one up in a side street, when this fellow came along.
All buses were off the streets, no underground trains running and no taxis were available.
There had been no noise loud enough to hear above the general traffic, the diesel buses and taxis.