What's the difference between discursive and excursive?
Discursive
Definition:
(a.) Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
(a.) Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the stage, the tolerant, discursive, boulevard theatre in which he had flourished was disappearing.
(2) Chaika and Lambe (1985) counter that it is a speech disorder at the syntactic-discursive level, and not a thought disorder.
(3) The efficacy of using discursively related as opposed to unrelated sentences in elicited imitation tasks is discussed from a pragmatic point of view.
(4) The analysis of their different ways of linking utterances shows difficulties that concern the construction of a common discursive ground.
(5) There were others too, but Sydney and Adelaide commanded the discursive high ground and took shit from no one.
(6) This paper presents a broad discursive assessment of the philosophy and practices of occupational therapy as related to leprosy.
(7) The continuing parochialization of the infantile neurosis to the phallic-oedipal period has been perpetuated in great part by a technical legacy which has tended to restrict reconstructions of the infantile neurosis to the more discursively recoverable libidinal events of that period, and to exclude its preoedipal and aggressive determinants which are more apt to be expressed through the nondiscursive modes of the transference through its acts and self states.
(8) It is a discursive device for summoning the people that you want.
(9) At once discursive and concrete, he only liked "exploring ideas if they were grounded in everyday experience".
(10) Since medicine is itself a discursive formation, a science with both a history, and a future, it is argued that much can be learned by reflecting on the progression of models, or "paradigm-shifts,", in terms of which modern medicine has articulated the human body that figures at the heart of its discourse.
(11) 6.09pm BST Maloney's long and discursive praise at this juncture for Hillary Clinton creates a good opportunity for us to note that Clinton is a likely strong Democratic presidential candidate in 2016 and one of the prickly subtexts of this hearing is that whatever we may find out about Benghazi, it's Clinton's performance that is up for trial and hurting her reputation as a leader could help the GOP regain the White House.
(12) What is striking for those who, like myself, have covered these protests is often how discursive and open-ended they are.
(13) Gary Younge : This did justice to his campaign in the way that the last few days have not It was a battle between the narrative and the discursive.
(14) To change this, several types of individual decision making were characterized, four in the field of intuition (very fast logical decisions, consciously and unconsciously heuristic decisions using special instruments, the deep remainder of intuition which can and should not be the subject of scientific analysis) and discursive (purely logical) decision making as a fifth type.
(15) Against present trends towards the homogenization and the hegemony of one world intellectual "koine," the author underscores the richness contained in the plurality of intellectual styles, discursive paradigms and cultural configurations.
(16) The second was a much more discursive (1,500-word) appraisal of all aspects of US-Russian relations, mostly noting areas of agreement.
(17) The act of conversing, the sense of being in a discursive space, is at the heart of human existence, and prison radio is about carving out a new space for its inmates, not just yearning for the one they've been locked out of.
(18) But Gould was good-humoured and discursive, taking an apparently compassionate view of human nature, and Lewontin, a population geneticist who could show that racial differences are genetically tiny, added credence to charges of racism, even though Wilson hadn't brought the subject up.
(19) Indeed, George Entwistle was appointed precisely because he said he wanted to make BBC culture more open, less command-led and more discursive.
(20) For late nineteenth century women, two significant influences upon their body behavior were: the physical realities of sickness and early death which modified, or curtailed female energy and physical capacity; and the discursive practices of medical experts and scientists concerning the identification and etiology of female ill-health and disease and their agreed upon therapies for assisting women to maintain, or regain their health.
Excursive
Definition:
(a.) Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increased ventilatory excursions with constant inspired CO2 levels did not cause any elevation of IOT, but a minimal compensatory drop in IOT below resting values occurred when increased ventilatory excursions were discontinued.
(2) The LVOR in the presence of visual targets (VLVOR) was tested by recording human vertical eye and head movements during self-generated vertical linear oscillation (averaging 2.7 Hz at peak excursion of 3.2 cm) while subjects alternately fixated targets at D = 36, 142, and 424 cm.
(3) During five separate excursions (1989-90), observations were made of occurrence, harvesting, use, and marketing of psychoactive fungi by local Thai natives (males and females, adults and children), foreign tourists, and German immigrants.
(4) Angiographic features felt to indicate valve tearing were present following 17 of 25 procedures and included increased excursion or straightening of leaflets, localized change in leaflet motion (flail leaflet), and the presence of an additional contrast jet through the valve.
(5) Before and one, two, three, and seven days after the experiment, the following measures were made: (1) superficial masseter and anterior temporalis muscle tenderness (pain threshold), (2) jaw movement (opening and lateral excursion), and (3) current pain level for the right and left sides of the jaw.
(6) In 10 dogs with acute posterior wall ischemia the B-C excursion (aneurysmal bulging) increased (P less than 0.01), but the mean systolic posterior wall velocity and posterior wall excursion decreased (P less than 0.01).
(7) As a user changes the position of the joints of the simulated hand, the simulation displays the new tendon path and the excursion of the tendon for the new position of the hand.
(8) Inspiratory and expiratory chest X-rays in children often appear to show a very similar diaphragmatic excursion and, unless the object is radiodense, the determination of foreign body aspiration is frequently not possible.
(9) We measured pressure excursions at the airway opening and at the alveoli (PA) as well as measured the regional distribution of PA during forced oscillations of six excised dog lungs while frequency (f[2-32 Hz]), tidal volume (VT [5-80 ml]), and mean transpulmonary pressure (PL [25, 10, and 6 cm H2O]) were varied.
(10) Comparing with formerly reported data for adults, it was thought that the lateral excursions of children with primary dentition shifted more forward and more horizontally.
(11) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(12) We conclude that the observed change in circulating metabolite or hormone concentration is independent of the size of meal eaten, but the duration of the excursion depends on meal size.
(13) The box means he does not have to be hooded for his excursions.
(14) The position of both working and non-working side molars during chewing tended to be inferior to that during lateral excursion.
(15) The recordings from an earlier study regarding the respiratory depth and rate changes induced by exposure to 4% CO2 in air in 13 babies with PM age varying between 32 and 43 weeks were reexamined with regard to the pattern of thoracic abdominal breathing excursion in breathing immediately prior to the CO2 exposure and the type of response induced.
(16) All three types of bar attachment show the least value of lateral excursion.
(17) In both excursion magnitudes and directions of initial rotation, the elderly showed greater variability than the young.
(18) At both 16 and 20 weeks of age, however, preferences for motion were determined exclusively by the velocity of the movement and were unaffected by the excursion of the bar.
(19) The aortic root dimension and aortic valve excursion of 43 normal fetuses were recorded with M-mode echocardiography and the measured dimensions correlated with noncardiac measurements (biparietal diameter, head circumference, abdominal circumference, and femur length) and cardiac measurements (diastolic biventricular inner dimension, diastolic left ventricular internal dimension, and mitral valve excursion).
(20) The proximal end of the TEC system consists of a mechanical housing which controls the vacuum, the rotating cutter (750 RPM) and the cutter excursion (4 cm).