express

verb

No English definition recorded for this entry.

Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɹɛs/ / /ɛkˈspɹɛs/

Etymology: From French exprès, from Latin expressus, past participle of exprimere (see Etymology 2, below).

Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
“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.”
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.”
“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[…]”
Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.
“Tesco Express”
“McDonald's Express”

Etymology: From French exprès, from Latin expressus, past participle of exprimere (see Etymology 2, below).

Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
“The train runs express to 96 St.”

Etymology: From Old French espresser, expresser, from frequentative form of Latin exprimere.

The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
“Whereby they discoursed in silence, and were intuitively understood from the theory of their expresses.”
A specific statement or instruction.
“This Gentleman [...] caused a man to go down no less than a hundred fathom, with express to take notice whether it were hard or soft in the place where it groweth.”

Etymology: From Old French espresser, expresser, from frequentative form of Latin exprimere.

To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
“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.”
To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
“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.”
To translate messenger RNA into protein.
To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
“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.”