What's the difference between car and taxi?

Car


Definition:

  • (n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
  • (n.) A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad.
  • (n.) A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity.
  • (n.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper.
  • (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
  • (n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.
  • (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
  • (2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (3) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
  • (4) "It has done so much to educate people about low emissions cars.
  • (5) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
  • (6) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
  • (7) Car manufacturers, for example, are not allowed to insist that buyers only get their car serviced by them.
  • (8) After all, you can only drive one car at a time or go on one holiday at a time.
  • (9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (10) At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured by a car bomb at a funeral in Jaramana at the end of August.
  • (11) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
  • (12) There are men who have been here for 15, 20 years or more who have never even sat in the cars because no one on the floor can afford to buy one.
  • (13) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
  • (14) "I was in the car with Matthew and he held out his phone and said: 'We need to talk about this' with a very serious face, and my immediate thought was somebody had found where I lived and had made a direct threat.
  • (15) "[Zimmerman] shouldn't have gotten out of that car.
  • (16) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
  • (17) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
  • (18) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
  • (19) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
  • (20) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .

Taxi


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
  • (2) The two main taxi associations said 100% of their members had parked their cars for the day in an effort to raise awareness over what they called unfair competition.
  • (3) Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles alleged that it was false for Uber to say it was the leader in screening drivers when its background checks were inferior to the process taxi drivers undergo, since Uber does not include fingerprint checks.
  • (4) Lorry drivers showed excess deaths from stomach cancer (SMR 141, p less than 0.05), lung cancer (SMR 159, p less than 0.05), bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma (SMR 143, p less than 0.05), a pattern not evident among taxi drivers.
  • (5) Ester already has a second child with her husband, who makes a living using his bicycle to provide a taxi service.
  • (6) Mutants in malF and malK are defective in maltose transport at low concentrations as well as high concentrations, as previously shown, but are essentially normal in maltose taxis.
  • (7) His business mentor was Andre Rousselet, a close friend of François Mitterrand, who appointed him to run the well-known French taxi firm Taxi G7 where he made his fortune.
  • (8) Taxis will still accept customers hailing them from the street.
  • (9) The head of the New South Wales taxi council has lashed out at Labor leader Luke Foley’s support for Uber, likening the system to “WorkChoices on steroids”.
  • (10) SpaceX is among four firms vying to build space taxis to fly astronauts, tourists and non-Nasa researchers.
  • (11) Gilbride, now a taxi driver in Stirling, has refused to comment.
  • (12) A taxi driver in the Dominican Republic, when shown a picture of Brown, said: "I picked him up from a Thomson flight three months ago.
  • (13) They had been drinking and he persuaded her back to the hotel and said he’d get her a taxi home.
  • (14) One investor who spoke up in defence of bonuses – the former City fund manager and Conservative party donor Patrick Evershed – was jeered by one of those present, who shouted "call him a taxi".
  • (15) Amsterdam Uber drivers have been blocked in by taxi drivers and one reported having his tyres slashed.
  • (16) Yadav’s victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she had dozed off in a taxi while returning home from dinner.
  • (17) Many are first- or second-generation immigrants from places such as Afghanistan, Poland, Somalia and Nigeria eager to sign up to drive for the US tech company, whose phone-based minicab-hailing app has transformed the taxi industry in 58 countries.
  • (18) A business trip to New York in November 2006, in which Bennett spent £315.16 staying at the W Hotel in Manhattan, saw her claim £2.49 for a taxi to check in to the hotel following a board meeting and £2.49 for one because she was "carrying bags and confidential paperwork".
  • (19) Almost all taxi and private hire drivers have been self-employed for decades before our app existed and with Uber they have more control.
  • (20) The voices of the other characters – Thomas's mother as well as a cast of recognisable grotesques: a taxi driver, a bully, the local drunk – add to the atmosphere of dissolving reality and, at times, to the sense that they may exist only in Magill's head.