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What is "taxying"

Wiktionary
taxying

alt. (present participle of taxi English) (irregular) vb. (present participle of taxi English) (irregular)

WordNet
taxi

  1. v. travel slowly; "The plane taxied down the runway"

  2. ride in a taxicab

  3. [also: taxying, taxies (pl)]

taxi

  1. n. a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money [syn: cab, hack, taxicab]

  2. [also: taxying, taxies (pl)]

taxying

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Usage examples of "taxying".

I felt the same fear of being buried alive when you hesitated before taxying back under the ramp door.

Suddenly it began to move, but instead of taxying towards the boys, it gathered speed, rolled down the runway and in a few moments was airborne.

Now there was scattered snow and barren trees as they crossed the tiny hillocks of the Vosges, then permanent snow and ice-floes on the Rhine, a short stop at Basle, and then the black criss-cross of Zurich Airport and 'fasten your lap-straps' in three languages, and they were planing down, a slight bump, the roar of jet deflection, and then they were taxying up to the apron in front of the imposing, very European-looking buildings decked with the gay flags of the nations.