Taxi

Taxi may mean:

Transport

• A form of public transportation: see taxicab.
• An air taxi (charter jet ) is a bizjet.
• A water taxi is a small boat that transports passengers on water.
• A verb describing the movement of an aircraft on the ground. Usually this is between runways, or between a hangar or terminal and a runway. The paved surfaces on which aircraft taxi are called taxiways.

Media

• An American television comedy: see Taxi.

Movies

• Taxi Driver.

• Taxi written by Luc Besson and directed by Gérard Pirès in 1998.
• Taxi 2 directed by Gérard Krawczyk in 2000.
• Taxi 3 directed by Gérard Krawczyk in 2003.

• Taxi - a 2004 movie starring Jimmy Fallon (a US remake of Luc Besson's 1998 film).

Music

• "Taxi"- song by Harry Chapin

Other

• A Romanian pop band -- see Taxi.
• An Australian exclamation, normally heard in pubs, clubs and bars following an act of discoordination (i.e. spilling drinks or breaking glasses). Suggesting that the uncoordinated party should probably be put in a taxi and sent home immediately.
• A video game (Crazy Taxi) for game consoles in which players receive money and/or points for picking up passengers and delivering them on time to their destinations and performing stunts such as weaving through traffic, jumping off things, and speeding.

Etymology

The word taxi arose as short for "taximeter", which was made from French taxe = "price" and Greek metron = "measure".

Contrast with

Taxis (singular) -- an oriented locomotion in a gradient, usually of simple organisms (chemotaxis, magnetotaxis , ...). The word taxis arose as Greek for "arrangement", from the verb tassein.