taxis

See also: Taxus, Taxis, táxis, and taxi's

English

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangment, order”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: tăkʹsĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈtæksɪs/

Noun

taxis (plural taxes)

1. (biology) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
2. (medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury.
3. (rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
4. arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar
5. (historical) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.

Usage notes

Distinguished from tropism in that in a tropism, the organism is not motile, and simply turns or grows towards or away from stimulus (e.g., plants, fungi), while in a taxis, the organism has motility and moves towards or away from stimulus (e.g., bacteria, animals). Distinguished from a kinesis in that a kinesis is non-directional movement, while a taxis is directional.

Translations

biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus

• Catalan: taxi (ca) f
• Finnish: taksia (fi)
• Greek: τροπισμός (el) m (tropismós)
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• Irish: luadar m
• Tagalog: biling

medicine, surgery: movement of a body part; resetting

• Greek: ανάταξη (el) f (anátaxi)
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See also

• kinesis
• tropism

Etymology 2

See taxi.

Alternative forms

• taxies

Pronunciation

• enPR: tăkʹsēz, IPA^(key): /ˈtæksiz/

Noun

taxis

1. plural of taxi

Verb

taxis

1. Template:en-third person singular of

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Catalan

Noun

taxis

1. plural of taxi

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French

Noun

taxis m

1. plural of taxi

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) taxīs

1. dative plural of taxus
2. ablative plural of taxus

References

• taxis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “taxis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “taxis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Spanish

Noun

taxis

1. plural of taxi

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Swedish

Noun

taxis

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite genitive singular of taxi