expressadj詞源 1/ɪkˈspɹɛs/

• 1

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

• 2

  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

  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[…]
• 4

  businesscommerceretailProviding a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.

  • Tesco Express
  • McDonald's Express

expressnoun詞源 1/ɪkˈspɹɛs/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  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.

• 3

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

• 4

  An express rifle.

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

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

  • And this [holy communion] being the great myſtery of Chriſtianity, and the onely remanent expreſſe of Chriſts ſacrifice on earth, it is moſt conſonant to the Analogy of the myſtery, that this commemorative ſacrifice be preſented by perſons as ſeparate, and diſtinct in our miniſtery, […]
• 6

  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

  An express office.

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

  That which is sent by an express messenger or message.

  • popular captations, which some men use in their Speeches, and Expresses
  • “5th, If an express requires extraordinary despatch, the man-mountain shall be obliged to carry, in his pocket, the messenger and horse a six days journey, once in every moon, and return the said messenger back (if so required) safe to our imperial presence.

expressadv詞源 1/ɪkˈspɹɛs/

• 1

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

  • The train runs express to 96 St.

expressverb詞源 2/ɪkˈspɹɛs/

• 1

  To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.

  • Words cannot express the love I feel for him.
  • We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith. As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.
• 2

  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.
• 3

  biochemistrybiologychemistryTo translate messenger RNA into protein.

• 4

  biochemistrybiologychemistryTo 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.

expressnoun詞源 2/ɪkˈspɹɛs/

• 1

  obsoleteThe 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.
• 2

  obsoleteA 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.