An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DEICTIC
deictic
(adjective) relating to or characteristic of a word whose reference depends on the circumstances of its use; “deictic pronouns”
deictic, deictic word
(noun) a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs; “words that introduce particulars of the speaker’s and hearer’s shared cognitive field into the message”- R.Rommetveit
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
deictic (comparative more deictic, superlative most deictic)
(grammar) Of or pertaining to deixis; to a word whose meaning is dependent on context.
Directly pointing out; specifying.
Noun
deictic (plural deictics)
(grammar) Such a word (such as I or here).
Hyponyms
• pronoun
Source: Wiktionary
Deic"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Logic)
Definition: Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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