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Taxis   /tˈæksiz/   Listen
Taxis

noun
1.
A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism.
2.
The surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part.



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"Taxis" Quotes from Famous Books



... the streets, and this is a great inconvenience; they are all at Versailles being converted into meat wagons or ambulances. All the fast private automobiles are requisitioned for the army, and one sees them tearing along vying in speed with the flying taxis, each one driven by a sapper with another sapper in the footman's place, while one or two officers sit calmly behind, trying to smoke cigarettes ...
— The Note-Book of an Attache - Seven Months in the War Zone • Eric Fisher Wood
... and in future you shall have as many taxis as you want. You shall go up and down and round the town in a taxi every day. ...
— Pygmalion • George Bernard Shaw


Words linked to "Taxis" :   operation, surgical process, surgical procedure, reaction, response, surgical operation, surgery


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