express
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
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Etymology: From French exprès, from Latin expressus, past participle of exprimere (see Etymology 2, below).
Inflected forms:
form: more express
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most express
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: expresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: expresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: expressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.
This book cannot be copied without the express permission of the publisher.
Beginning with the next issue, which will be the January, 1950, issue, this magazine will be published on the first of every month. This step has been taken at the express wish of readers despite the present paper and production difficulties.
gloss: Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
pos: adj
examples: In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.
Soon as the potion works, their human countenance, / The express resemblance of the gods, is changed / Into some brutish form, of wolf, or bear, / Or ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, / All other parts remaining as they were[…]
gloss: Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.
pos: adj
tags: postpositional
examples: Tesco Express
McDonald's Express
gloss: A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly, either on a regular schedule or as a special or excursion. Express trains often pass through stations along the way without stopping at them.
pos: noun
examples: I took the express into town.
Your attention please. Train 4715 is now boarding on track 3, section B. This train is an express. This train does not stop at Foo, Bar, or Fubar stations.
The train was moving less fast through the summer night. The swift express had changed into something almost a parliamentary, had stopped three times since Norwich, and now, at long last, was approaching Banton.
Except for the mid-winter period, when the 11.30 a.m. from Paddington and its opposite number will be withdrawn - Torquay now has seven daily expresses to and from Paddington as compared with five down and six up previously.
This is also a TransPennine Express service which makes a mockery of the word 'express'.
gloss: A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly, either on a regular schedule or as a special or excursion. Express trains often pass through stations along the way without stopping at them.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
gloss: A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
pos: noun
gloss: An express rifle.
pos: noun
examples: "Give me my express," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.
gloss: A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: And this [holy communion] being the great myſtery of Chriſtianity, and the onely remanent expreſſe of Chriſts ſacrifice on earth, it is moſt conſonant to the Analogy of the myſtery, that this commemorative ſacrifice be preſented by perſons as ſeparate, and diſtinct in our miniſtery, […]
gloss: A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
pos: noun
examples: I learned, to my inexpressible terror, that at two o'clock, the day before, an express had been sent to Geraldine by Mr Bergasse, with a letter, which he had received from the Hotel de Romagnecourt.
gloss: An express office.
pos: noun
examples: She charged him […] to ask at the express if anything came up from town.
gloss: That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
pos: noun
examples: popular captations, which some men use in their Speeches, and Expresses
“5th, If an express requires extraordinary despatch, the man-mountain shall be obliged to carry, in his pocket, the messenger and horse a six days journey, once in every moon, and return the said messenger back (if so required) safe to our imperial presence.
So much was Sir Edward delighted that he sent an express to inform Lord Meersbrook of this great act of friendship, in order that he might be the more easy on their account;...
gloss: Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
pos: adv
examples: The train runs express to 96 St.
gloss: To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Words cannot express the love I feel for him.
We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith. As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.
Services during Yom Kippur are held continuously through the day and include readings from the Torah and the reciting of prayers expressing regret or asking for forgiveness.
Obama expresses empathy for graduates who might be feeling lost or overwhelmed, adding she, too, feels those emotions.
gloss: To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl […]
It contained many cysts which were filled with sagolike granules that could be expressed under pressure.
They don’t have teats, so the mothers express their milk onto their bellies for their young to feed.
gloss: To translate messenger RNA into protein.
pos: verb
gloss: To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
pos: verb
examples: When a cell “expresses” a gene, it translates the DNA first into a signature messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence and subsequently into a chain of amino acids that forms a protein.
Related words: expressible
expressibly
expression
expressive
expressively
expressly
Derived words: express elevator
express kidnapping
express lane
express officer
express road
express train
FedEx
ankle express
agroexpress
coexpress
co-express
expressable
expressage
expressed
expressed emotion
expressedly
expressless
expressman
expressness
expressome
express oneself
expressor
expressway
hyperexpress
immunoexpress
misexpress
overexpress
re-express
reexpress
superexpress
underexpress
unexpress
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: експре́с
roman: eksprés
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 急行列車 /急行列车
roman: jíháng lièchē
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 快車 /快车
roman: kuàichē
lang: Danish
word: ekspres
lang: Esperanto
word: ekspreso
lang: Finnish
word: pikavuoro
lang: Finnish
word: pikajuna
lang: French
word: express
lang: German
word: Express
lang: German
word: Schnellzug
lang: Hungarian
word: expressz
lang: Italian
word: espresso
lang: Japanese
word: 急行列車
roman: kyūkō ressha
lang: Korean
word: 급행열차
roman: geuphaeng'yeolcha
lang: Macedonian
word: е́кспре́с
roman: éksprés
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ekspress
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ekspress
lang: Portuguese
word: expresso
lang: Romanian
word: expres
lang: Russian
word: экспре́сс
roman: ekspréss
lang: Russian
word: ско́рый по́езд
roman: skóryj pójezd
lang: Spanish
word: expreso
lang: Spanish
word: exprés
lang: Swedish
word: express
lang: Thai
word: รถด่วน
roman: rót-dùuan
lang: Ukrainian
word: експре́с
roman: eksprés
lang: Bulgarian
word: изстисквам
roman: izstiskvam
lang: Finnish
word: erittää
lang: French
word: exprimer
lang: Galician
word: espremer
lang: Hungarian
word: kinyom
lang: Hungarian
word: kisajtol
lang: Hungarian
word: kicsavar
lang: Hungarian
word: kifacsar
lang: Hungarian
word: kiprésel
lang: Hungarian
word: kiválaszt
lang: Māori
word: whakawhetē
lang: Māori
word: whakatē
lang: Portuguese
word: espremer
lang: Portuguese
word: extrair
lang: Spanish
word: exprimir
lang: Walloon
word: fé tchitchî
lang: Walloon
word: fé brotchî foû
lang: Hungarian
word: expresszál