express
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[edit] Etymology
Verb from Mediaeval Latin expressare, form of Latin exprimere (“‘to represent, to describe; to press out’”), from ex- (“‘out’”) + primere (“‘to press’”).[1] Cognate to espresso.
Adjective from form expressus.
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express (comparative more express, superlative most express)
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- Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
- (comparable) Specific or precise.
- I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.
- Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
- In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.
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specific or precise
truly depicted, exactly resembling
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[edit] Noun
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express (plural expresses)
- A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
- I took the express into town.
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- (of a train): fast train
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quick mode of transportation
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to express (third-person singular simple present expresses, present participle expressing, simple past and past participle expressed)
- (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
- Words cannot express the love I feel for him.
- (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- 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 [...].
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
- (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
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to convey meaning
to excrete or cause to excrete
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