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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

... out of his doorway he became aware that something was still wrong in the Old Orchard. Into the glad chorus there broke a note of distress and sorrow. Johnny instantly recognized the voices of Welcome Robin and Mrs. Robin. There is not one among his feathered neighbors who can so express worry and ...

— The Burgess Bird Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess

... illustrious brother found me in the lowest obscurity: he introduced my rustic muse to the partiality of my country; and to him I owe all. My sense of his goodness, and the anguish of my soul at losing my truly noble protector and friend, I have endeavoured to express in a poem to his memory, which I have now published. This edition is just from the press; and in my gratitude to the dead, and my respect for the living (fame belies you, my lord, if you possess not the same dignity of man, which was your noble ...

— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

... young buck them days, an' purty much of a desperado, I'm thinkin'. Though of all the seventeen notches on my gun—an' each notch meant a man killed face to face—there was only one thet I was ashamed of. Thet one was fer an express messenger who I hit on the head most unprofessional like, jest because he wouldn't hand over a leetle package. I hed the kind of a reputashun thet made all the fellers in saloons ...

— The Light of Western Stars • Zane Grey

... that there was no written resolution. The motion was just to express the feeling of this meeting as to whether there was to be ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... part of the English settlements east of it are in Abenakis' lands; that they would be justified in telling them to quit there, but that they had considered that their settlements were established and that they were still inclined to tolerate them; but they demanded as an express condition of peace that the English should abandon the country from one league beyond Saco River to Port Royal, which was the line separating the lands of the Abenakis ...

— The Abenaki Indians - Their Treaties of 1713 & 1717, and a Vocabulary • Frederic Kidder

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