express
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[edit] Adjective
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
[edit] Verb
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to express (third-person singular simple present expresses, present participle expressing, simple past and past participle expressed)
- To convey meaning.
- Words cannot express the love I feel for him.
- To excrete or cause to excrete, especially said of milk.
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to convey meaning
to excrete or cause to excrete
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