[
US
/ˈtæksiz/
]
NOUN
- 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
How To Use taxis In A Sentence
- Suffering several weeks of temporary lameness, I have been taking taxis a good deal, and offer a few gleanings from recent experience.
- Phyllotaxis, which need not be entered into fully here; but in order the better to estimate the teratological changes which take place, it may be well to allude to the following circumstances relating to the alternation of parts. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- The ferries, warships, water taxis, huge container vessels, yachts and fishing tinnies ply with impunity one of the greatest anchorages and working harbours in the world.
- Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
- In the transportation field, taxis and the most basic commodity of all, fuel, are based on unit cost prices.
- Taxis are plentiful and can be found at major hotels as well as in main tourist areas or cruising the streets.
- The petechiae may give way to ecchymoses (like a petechial rash, but covering larger areas) and other haemorrhagic phenomena such as melaena (bleeding from the upper bowel, passed as altered blood in the faeces), haematuria (blood in the urine), epistaxis Chapter 2
- In a fundamental conflict between constative force and performative possibility, the assuring parataxis itself begins to serve as a resistant marker of performatives that potentially contradict its simple narrative.
- An original plan to make sure all taxis were painted black-and-yellow was dumped after cabbies baulked at the cost.
- The shuttles were abominably slow, taxis couldn't be found anywhere.