TAXIS (taxes, taxis)

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Irregular inflected forms: taxes    , taxis   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does taxis mean? 

• TAXIS (noun)
  The noun TAXIS has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: TAXIS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAXIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("taxis" is a kind of...):

reaction; response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "taxis"):

chemotaxis (movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("taxis" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

 Context examples 

You may have sent in your tuition check, paid to have your floors fixed, sent in estimated taxes, or sent a deposit on your child’s music class for the coming season.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A person's total income before taxes, exclusions, and deductions.

(Gross Income, NCI Thesaurus)

It was as true, said Mr. Barkis, nodding his nightcap, which was his only means of emphasis, as taxes is.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Headey believes that if increasing taxes on unhealthy food products is not having the desired effects, something must be done to discourage consumers from choosing unhealthy food products and producers from producing them.

(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

What we pay rates and taxes for I don’t know, when any ruffian can come in and break one’s goods.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If it please you, sire, he said, the public funds are at their lowest, seeing that I have paid twelve thousand men of the companies, and the new taxes—the hearth-tax and the wine-tax—not yet come in.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He fell next upon the management of our treasury; and said, he thought my memory had failed me, because I computed our taxes at about five or six millions a-year, and when I came to mention the issues, he found they sometimes amounted to more than double; for the notes he had taken were very particular in this point, because he hoped, as he told me, that the knowledge of our conduct might be useful to him, and he could not be deceived in his calculations.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And a very well-spoken, genteel, shrewd lady, she seemed to be, continued he; asked more questions about the house, and terms, and taxes, than the Admiral himself, and seemed more conversant with business; and moreover, Sir Walter, I found she was not quite unconnected in this country, any more than her husband; that is to say, she is sister to a gentleman who did live amongst us once; she told me so herself: sister to the gentleman who lived a few years back at Monkford.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You seem to be getting your finances organized, paying your bills and taxes, and working on a program to pay down debt.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Letter from Lord Merrow, report from Sir Charles Hardy, memorandum from Belgrade, note on the Russo-German grain taxes, letter from Madrid, note from Lord Flowers——Good heavens! what is this?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)