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Express

verb

(past & past part. expressed; pres. part. expressing)

1.

Give expression to. Synonyms: evince, show.

2.

Articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise. Synonyms: give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize. "He uttered a curse"

3.

Serve as a means for expressing something. Synonyms: carry, convey. "His voice carried a lot of anger"

4.

Indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.. Synonym: state.

5.

Manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait).

6.

Obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action. Synonyms: extract, press out.

7.

Send by rapid transport or special messenger service.

noun

1.

Mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system. Synonym: express mail.

2.

Public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops. Synonym: limited.

3.

Rapid transport of goods. Synonym: expressage.

adjective

1.

Not tacit or implied.

2.

Without unnecessary stops. "An express shipment"

adverb

1.

By express.

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"Express" Quotes from Famous Books

... move that we begin to wonder how he found time for his paintings: he is so continually productive that we wonder no less that he found it possible to travel. His wanderings might be normal in these days of Pullman-cars and express trains, but in an age when any journey was a matter of difficulty and often personal danger they seem almost phenomenal. From Orvieto (1490) he goes to Florence, from Florence to Perugia, and thence to Rome; in 1493 he is married at Fiesole to Chiara ...

— Perugino • Selwyn Brinton

... loosened limbs and bending body of Christ; what piety in the adoring old man! All the moods proper to this supreme tragedy of the faith are touched as in some tenor song with low accompaniment of viols; for it was Luini's special province to feel profoundly and to express musically. The very depth of the Passion is there; and yet ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds

... AND CLASSICISM QUIESCENT (1700-1725) The clearest portrayal of the prominent features of an age may sometimes be seen in poems which reveal what men desire to be rather than what they are; and which express sentiments typical, even commonplace, rather than individual. John Pomfret's Choice (1700) is commonplace indeed; it was never deemed great, but it was remarkably popular. "No composition in our language," opined Dr. Johnson, "has been ...

— English Poets of the Eighteenth Century • Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum

... enough to say so, Alf. I'll apologize as many times as you like. I'll keep on till you are satisfied. But you must listen. You are a-gittin' powerful touchy here lately, and it ain't becomin' in a man of yore dignity. It will git so after a while that I can't express any sort of opinion to you without a fist-fight. I was goin' on to say that I was jest thinkin' of old Welborne's quick wit in every emergency that set me to wonderin' that day how he might act in sech a case. They say everything is grist to his mill—that he turns ...

— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben

... medium of exchange, money comes to be the unit in which most prices are expressed and compared; in other words, it becomes the common denominator of prices.[7] This makes it also the most convenient unit in which to express the amount of credit transactions and of existing debts.[8] A credit transaction is a trade lengthened in time; one party fulfils his part of the contract, the other party promises to give an equivalent at a later date. The equivalent may be in any kind of goods; for example, in barter ...

— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter

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