express

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      Etymology 1

      From French exprès, from Latin expressus, past participle of exprimere (see Etymology 2, below).

      Adjective

      express (comparative more express, superlative most express)

      1. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
        • 1931, Francis Beeding, chapter 1/1, Death Walks in Eastrepps[1]:
          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.
      2. (comparable) Specific or precise.
        I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.
      3. 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.
      Synonyms
      Antonyms
      Translations
      moving or operating quickly
      specific or precise
      truly depicted, exactly resembling
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      Noun

      express (plural expresses)

      1. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
        I took the express into town.
      2. An express rifle.
        (Can we find and add a quotation of H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines to this entry?)
      Synonyms
      • (of a train): fast train
      Antonyms
      Translations
      quick mode of transportation

      Etymology 2

      From Old French espresser, expresser, from frequentative form of Latin exprimere.

      Verb

      express (third-person singular simple present expresses, present participle expressing, simple past and past participle expressed)

      1. ​ (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
        Words cannot express the love I feel for him.
      2. (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
        • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
          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 [...].
      3. (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
      4. (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
      Synonyms
      Translations
      to convey meaning
      to excrete or cause to excrete
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      Noun

      express (plural expresses)

      1. (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
        • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.20:
          Whereby they discoursed in silence, and were intuitively understood from the theory of their expresses.
      2. (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.
        • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
          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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