亚洲网紅露点

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deictic

[ dahyk-tik ]

adjective

  1. Logic. proving directly.
  2. Grammar. specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of one or more of the participants in an act of speech or writing, in the context of either an external situation or the surrounding discourse, as we, you, here, there, now, then, this, that, the former, or the latter.


noun

  1. Grammar. a deictic element.

deictic

/ 藞诲补瑟办迟瑟办 /

adjective

  1. logic proving by direct argument Compare elenctic
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. another word for indexical
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞诲别颈肠迟颈肠补濒濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 诲别颈肠顎僼颈路肠补濒路濒测 adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of deictic1

1820鈥30; < Greek 诲别颈办迟颈办贸蝉 demonstrative, equivalent to deikt ( 贸蝉 ) able to be proved, verbal adjective of 诲别颈办苍媒苍补颈 to show, prove, point + -ikos -ic
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of deictic1

C17: from Greek deiktikos concerning proof, from deiknunai to show
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In more recent years, studies on other animals, such as ravens and fish, have shown that they also use some simple gestures to, for example, point out objects or show something of interest, called deictic gesturing.

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They also noted that the wing-fluttering "after-you" gesture was aimed at the mate and not the nest box, meaning that it wasn't being used as a deictic gesture to indicate the position of something of interest.

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Deictic, d墨k鈥瞭ik, adj. proving directly.鈥攁dv.

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Some lawyers are successful in the elenchical mode of argument鈥攖o use a logical term鈥攖hat is, in demolishing the structure of their opponents, while they fail in the deictic, that is, in raising on its ruins an impregnable fabric of their own; but it was difficult to decide which process was the most thorough in the reasoning of Tazewell.

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