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deictic
[ dahyk-tik ]
adjective
- Logic. proving directly.
- 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
- Grammar. a deictic element.
Derived Forms
- 藞诲别颈肠迟颈肠补濒濒测, adverb
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 诲别颈肠顎僼颈路肠补濒路濒测 adverb
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of deictic1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Deictic, d墨k鈥瞭ik, adj. proving directly.鈥攁dv.
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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