TAXIとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Shortened from taximeter cab, taximeter (“automatic meter that records distance and fare”) from French taximètre, from German Taxameter (whence also English taxameter), coined from Medieval Latin taxa (“tax, charge”). More at tax, task.

The aviation sense originally derived for a slang term for training aircraft used for practicing ground operations, which were said to drive around the airfield like a taxicab, and subsequently applied to all aircraft ground movements.

発音

• IPA: /ˈtæk.si/
• 韻: -æksi

名詞

taxi (countable and uncountable, plural taxis or taxies)

1. A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, particularly one with an automated meter to calculate the fare.
   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 12:

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

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

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

2. (aviation, slang, obsolete) An aircraft used for practicing ground manoeuvres.
   • 1912, Flight: The Aircraft Engineer:

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

   • 1914, Aeroplane and Commercial Aviation News:

     ... 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.

   • 1913, The Aeroplane:

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

3. (aviation, uncountable, countable) The movement of an aircraft across an airport's surface under its own power; a phase of aircraft operation involving this movement.

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

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

4. (South Africa, Iran) Synonym of shared taxi.

同意語

• (vehicle hired for single journeys): cab, taxicab; autocab, motorcab (dated)

下位語

• (vehicle hired for single journeys): hackney carriage, hackney cab, hack cab, black cab (licensed taxis in the UK); yellow cab (licensed taxis in NYC & some other locations); gypsy cab, minicab, jitney (unlicensed taxis); robotaxi (self-driving taxis); motorcycle taxi; bike cab, baby taxi, pedicab (rickshaw taxis); aircab, aerocab, gyrocab, airtaxi (flying taxis); helicab (helicopter taxis); cabulance (taxis used as ambulances); see shared taxi (various forms of shared taxis); taxicab (mechanically metered taxis); rideshare, Lyft, Uber (taxi-style services hired through a ridesharing app)

派生語

派生した語

• → Burmese: တက္ကစီ (takka.ci)
• → Cantonese: 的士 (dik si)
  • → Mandarin: 的士 (dīshì, díshì)
• → Mandarin: 德士 (déshì)
• → Chichewa: takisii
• → Irish: tacsaí
• → Japanese: タクシー (takushī)
  • → Hakka: 他庫西 / 他库西 (thà-khu-sí)
  • → Min Nan: tha-khú-sih
• → Korean: 택시 (taeksi)
• → Maori: takihī
• → Malay: teksi
• → Welsh: tacsi
• → Yiddish: טאַקסי (taksi)
• → Yoruba: takisí; tasín

動詞

taxi (third-person singular simple present taxis or (rare) taxies, present participle taxiing or (rare) taxying, simple past and past participle taxied)

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

   taxi down the runway

2. To travel by taxicab.
   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:

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

関連する語

• taxicab
• taxiway

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