单词 | indexical |
释义 | indexicaladj. a. Arranged like an index. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [adjective] > index indicala1661 indexical1828 indexed1872 1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1866 R. W. Small (title) The Carrier's Indexical Ready Reckoner. 1884 American 8 267 Lists of indexes and indexical works. b. Relating or pertaining to an index. ΚΠ 1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1893 Nation (N.Y.) 11 May 350/3 Indexical defects are so common that the reviewer is in danger of becoming hardened to their seriousness. c. Of the nature of an index or indication. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > [adjective] > indicating or indicative of talkative1509 indicant1607 denotative1611 indicative1665 notifying1680 expressive1713 indicating1753 impressive1791 indicatory1798 redolent1828 denotive1830 indiciala1849 indexical1897 1897 Harper's Mag. Apr. 744 This is very tame beside the idiomatic Spanish in which it was said, but it is indexical. a1914 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1932) II. ii. iii. 164 Some indices are more or less detailed directions for what the hearer is to do in order to place himself in direct..connection with the thing meant... Along with such indexical directions of what to do to find the object meant, ought to be classed..selective pronouns. a1914 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1932) II. ii. iii. 164 Other indexical words are prepositions, and prepositional phrases. 1957 Lingua VII. i. 27 Within the same vowel system, diaphonic differences are considerable, and appear to be highly indexical, both socially and regionally, in differentiating accents within England. 1970 Eng. Stud. 51 276 Beside these indexical features a medium also has aesthetic properties. Derivatives inˈdexically adv. in the manner of an index, alphabetically. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [adverb] > index indexically1728 1728 J. Swift Let. to Pope 16 July I would have the names of those scriblers printed indexically at the beginning or end of the poem. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1728 |
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