express

/ɪkˈspɹɛs/

verb 4
noun 10
adjective 4
adverb 1
forms 9
phrases 1

verb4

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to make an idea, a view or a feeling clear to others
- Words cannot express the love I feel for him.
To translate messenger RNA into protein.
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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. — 2015
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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 […] — 1851

noun10

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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.
(Philippines) a public utility vehicle, typically a jeepney, that traverses through an expressway
A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
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An express office.
- She charged him […] to ask at the express if anything came up from town. — 1873
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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. — 1792
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That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
- popular captations, which some men use in their Speeches, and Expresses — 1648
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An express rifle.
- "Give me my express," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked. — 1885
(no longer used) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
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(no longer used) 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. — 1646
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(no longer used) 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. — 1646

adjective4

Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
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[after a noun] Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.
- McDonald's Express
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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.
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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.

adverb1

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

forms

express'd · expressed · exprest · expressing · expresses · expresseth · expressest · more express · most express

Phrases with express

express elevator
A high-speed elevator that only serves a select number of floors