taxi

plural taxis · plural taxies

1. countableuncountableA vehicle, usually a car, that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.

   I cabbed a package downtown in my father's taxi.

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   "Taxi," he called. And when one pulled up to the curb with screeching brakes he ordered, "The nearest restaurant."

   1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 12

   [Sobbing uncontrollably] I thought I could make it work between us because you looked a bit like a man. TAXI!

   2007 August 24, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 1

   Synonyms: cab, taxicab, autocab, motorcab

2. countableobsoleteslanguncountableaeronauticsAn aircraft used for practicing ground manoeuvres.

   Mr. E. B. Bauman (new pupil) joined school and had first lesson on No. 2 taxi.

   1913, The Aeroplane

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   Capt. Dawes and Bellairs were out with the Deperdussin taxi, and also with the brevet machine, rolling.

   1912, Flight: The Aircraft Engineer

   ... some similar untidy pile of what had been a school biplane is recorded to have acted the part of red rag to the bull of a "taxi" monoplane , which despite its driver's efforts insisted on charging and trampling on the battered fragments.

   1914, Aeroplane and Commercial Aviation News

3. countableuncountableaeronauticsThe movement of an aircraft across an airport's surface under its own power; a phase of aircraft operation involving this movement.

   Seat belts must be kept fastened during taxi, takeoff, turbulence, and landing.

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   During taxi, the flaps and slats are extended and the second engine (if not already running) is started.

4. IranSouth AfricacountableuncountableSynonym of shared taxi.

   Synonyms: shared taxi

present singular third person taxis · present rare singular third person taxies · participle present taxiing · participle present rare taxying · participle past taxied · past taxied

1. To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power.

   taxi down the runway

2. To travel by taxicab.

   [H]e had taxied to the waterfront bent upon a business in which nostalgia had no part[.]

   1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1

3. transitiveTo transport by taxicab, or in a way suggesting a taxi service.

   Rhonda felt a bit foolish explaining that she was looking for a judge to marry the daughter of the Russian driver who had been taxiing her and her companions around the city.

   2005, Judith Henry Wall, A Good Man (page 184)