express

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.

2. 2

   Specific or precise

   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.
3. 3

   Truly depicted

   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[…]
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   1. 4

      Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of…

      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
   2. 5

      A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly, either on a…

      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.

      • 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.
   3. 6

      A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.

   4. 7

      An express rifle.

      • "Give me my express," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.
   5. 8

      A clear image or representation

      A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.

   6. 9

      A messenger sent on a special errand

      A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.

      • 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.
   7. 10

      An express office.

      • She charged him […] to ask at the express if anything came up from town.
   8. 11

      That which is sent by an express messenger or message.

      • popular captations, which some men use in their Speeches, and Expresses
      • 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;...
   9. 12

      To convey or communicate

      To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.

      • Words cannot express the love I feel for him.
      • 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.
   10. 13

       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.
       • They don’t have teats, so the mothers express their milk onto their bellies for their young to feed.
   11. 14

       To translate messenger RNA into protein.

   12. 15

       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.
   13. 16

       The action of conveying some idea using words or actions

       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.
   14. 17

       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.

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