TAXI (taxies, taxying)

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Irregular inflected forms: taxies    , taxying   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does taxi mean? 

• TAXI (noun)
  The noun TAXI has 1 sense:

1. a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

  Familiarity information: TAXI used as a noun is very rare.

• TAXI (verb)
  The verb TAXI has 2 senses:

1. travel slowly

2. ride in a taxicab

  Familiarity information: TAXI used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAXI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cab; hack; taxi; taxicab

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

auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)

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

gypsy cab (a taxicab that cruises for customers although it is licensed only to respond to calls)

minicab (a minicar used as a taxicab)

Holonyms ("taxi" is a member of...):

fleet (group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership)

Derivation:

taxi (ride in a taxicab)

• TAXI (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they taxi    ... he / she / it taxies    / taxis   
Past simple: taxied   
Past participle: taxied   
-ing form: taxiing    / taxying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel slowly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The plane taxied down the runway

Hypernyms (to "taxi" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

These cars won't taxi

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ride in a taxicab

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cab; taxi

Hypernyms (to "taxi" is one way to...):

ride (be carried or travel on or in a vehicle)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

They taxi down the river

Derivation:

taxi (a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money)

 Context examples 

Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Safely take the adequate mode of transportation (car, bus, taxi)?

(DAD - Safely Take the Adequate Mode of Transportation, NCI Thesaurus)

Mercury will retrograde in your travel sector, so be sure to double-check you have all your belongings before leaving a plane, train, or taxi, and try not to book connecting flights.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I sat down for a few minutes with my head in my hands, until I heard the phone taken up inside and the butler's voice calling a taxi.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

As I tiptoed from the porch I heard my taxi feeling its way along the dark road toward the house. Gatsby was waiting where I had left him in the drive.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

No thanks. But I'd be glad if you'd order me the taxi. I'll wait outside.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

As my taxi groaned away I saw Gatsby walking toward me across his lawn.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Forms leaned together in the taxis as they waited, and voices sang, and there was laughter from unheard jokes, and lighted cigarettes outlined unintelligible gestures inside.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Again at eight o'clock, when the dark lanes of the Forties were five deep with throbbing taxi cabs, bound for the theatre district, I felt a sinking in my heart.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn't hardly know I wasn't getting into a subway train.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

One of the taxi drivers in the village never took a fare past the entrance gate without stopping for a minute and pointing inside; perhaps it was he who drove Daisy and Gatsby over to East Egg the night of the accident and perhaps he had made a story about it all his own.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)