different between taxis vs tropic

English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (táxis, “arrangment, order”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?k?s?s, IPA^(key): /?tæks?s/

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 dislocation or fracture.

   Synonym: reduction

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

See also

• kinesis
• tropism

Etymology 2

See taxi.

Alternative forms

• taxies

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?k?s?z, IPA^(key): /?tæksiz/

Noun

taxis

1. plural of taxi

Verb

taxis

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of taxi

Catalan

Noun

taxis

1. plural of taxi

French

Noun

taxis m

1. plural of taxi

Latin

Noun

tax?s

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, 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

Spanish

Noun

taxis

1. plural of taxi

Swedish

Noun

taxis

1. indefinite genitive singular of taxi

English

Alternative forms

• trop. (abbreviation)
• tropick (obsolete)
• Tropic

Etymology

From Late Latin tropicus (“of or pertaining to the solstice, as a noun, one of the tropics”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from ????? (trop?, “turn; solstice; trope”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??p?k/
• Rhymes: -?p?k

Noun

tropic (plural tropics)

1. Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°27? north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

tropic (comparative more tropic, superlative most tropic)

1. Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical.
2. (weather, climate) Hot and humid.
3. (biochemistry, incomparable) Having the quality of indirectly inducing a biological or chemical change in a system or substrate.

Usage notes

In chemical sense, not to be confused with similar-sounding trophic – the words and concepts are unrelated.

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References

Further reading

• tropic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tropic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• tropic at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Pictor, protic

Romanian

Etymology

From French tropique

Adjective

tropic m or n (feminine singular tropic?, masculine plural tropici, feminine and neuter plural tropice)

1. tropic

Declension