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Expression   /ɪksprˈɛʃən/   Listen
Expression

noun
1.
The feelings expressed on a person's face.  Synonyms: aspect, face, facial expression, look.  "A look of triumph" , "An angry face"
2.
Expression without words.  Synonyms: manifestation, reflection, reflexion.  "The pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition"
3.
The communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions.  Synonyms: verbal expression, verbalism.  "He helped me find verbal expression for my ideas" , "The idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours"
4.
A word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations.  Synonyms: locution, saying.
5.
The style of expressing yourself.  Synonym: formulation.  "His manner of expression showed how much he cared"
6.
A group of symbols that make a mathematical statement.  Synonym: formula.
7.
(genetics) the process of expressing a gene.
8.
A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit.  Synonyms: construction, grammatical construction.  Antonym: misconstruction.
9.
The act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing.



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"Expression" Quotes from Famous Books



... graceful self-possession, and bowed down formally to the ground, like a little ambassador. They drove past, and he went on unconcernedly with his play: the impromptu readiness and good judgment being clearly a part of his nature. His genial and open expression of countenance was none the less ingenuous and fearless for a certain tincture of fun; and it was in this mingling of qualities that he so ...
— Behind the Scenes - or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House • Elizabeth Keckley
... love. His affections, like the rest of his character, are aggressive and must find expression. His conjugality is large and he will center all his affections on one ...
— How to Become Rich - A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony • William Windsor
... she asked, gazing at us with a half- wild expression which she was making a tremendous effort to control. "Because if it is, I have something to tell him ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve
... co-operate with us, that, upon this important subject, there may be made to their High Mightinesses, a proposition so vigorous, that it may have the desired success: and that this affair, of an importance beyond all expression for our common country, may be resolved and decided by unanimous suffrages, and in ...
— A Collection of State-Papers, Relative to the First Acknowledgment of the Sovereignty of the United States of America • John Adams
... row of curious big photographs which ran like a pictured frieze round the upper side of the wall of the room. A casual observer might have thought that the little man had been amusing himself by photographing the explosions of fireworks on a Fourth of July night; but it was evident by his expression that these singular pictures had no connection with civic pyrotechnics, but must represent something of incomparably greater importance, and, ...
— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss


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