Dictionary Definition
express adj
1 not tacit or implied; "her express wish"
2 without unnecessary stops; "an express train";
"an express shipment"
Noun
1 rapid transport of goods [syn: expressage]
2 mail that is distributed by a rapid and
efficient system [syn: express
mail]
3 public transport consisting of a fast train or
bus that makes a limited number of scheduled stops; "he caught the
express to New York" [ant: local] adv : by express; "please
send the letter express"
Verb
2 articulate; either verbally or with a cry,
shout, or noise; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse"
[syn: verbalize,
verbalise, utter, give tongue
to]
3 indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.; "Can
you express this distance in kilometers?" [syn: state]
4 serve as a means for expressing something; "The
painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot
af anger" [syn: carry,
convey]
5 manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic
trait); "Many of the laboratory animals express the trait"
6 obtain from a substance, as by mechanical
action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it" [syn:
press
out, extract]
7 send my rapid transport or special messenger
service; "She expressed the letter to Florida"
User Contributed Dictionary
Adjective
- Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
- Specific or
precise.
- I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.
- 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.
Translations
moving or operating quickly
- Finnish: pika-
specific or precise
- Czech: výslovný
- Finnish: yksikäsitteinen
truly depicted, exactly resembling
- Finnish: ilmeinen
- ttbc Dutch: uitdrukkelijk
- ttbc Lithuanian: greitasis
- ttbc Romanian: rapid, precis
- ttbc Telugu: చకచకా (chakachakaa) (1), ఖచ్చితమైన (khacchitamaina) (2)
Noun
- A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or
directly.
- I took the express into town.
Synonyms
- italbrac of a train fast
Antonyms
- italbrac of a train local, stopper
Translations
quick mode of transportation
- Finnish: pikavuoro (bus), pikajuna (train)
Verb
Translations
to convey meaning
- Finnish: ilmaista
- Hungarian: kifejez, kijelent, kimond
to excrete or cause to excrete
- Finnish: erittää
- Hungarian: kinyom, kisajtol, kicsavar
- ttbc Dutch: uitdrukken
- ttbc French: exprimer
- ttbc Japanese: 述べる (のべる, noberu)
- ttbc Romanian: a exprima
- ttbc Spanish: expresar
- ttbc Telugu: వెలిబుచ్చు (velibucchu), తెలియజేయు (teliyajEyu), చెప్పు (cheppu)
See also
Extensive Definition
Express may refer to:
Media and communication
- The term "express" may refer to express mail, or parcels carried by train, bus, airplane or by courier.
- Express (satellite) is the name of a communication satellite.
- The Daily Express is a British newspaper.
- Express (newspaper) is a free daily newspaper in Washington, D.C.
- Express (Kosovar newspaper) is a daily newspaper in Priština, Kosovo (Serbia).
- Express (German newspaper) is a tabloid in the German Rhineland.
Transportation
- "The Express" was the usual name for the York Factory Express, also known as the Columbia Express, a shipment of Hudson's Bay Company books and personnel between company HQ at York Factory and Columbia Department HQ at Fort Vancouver. The term was also used for an earlier run by the Northwest Company from Fort William on Lake Superior to Fort George (Astoria) at the mouth of the Columbia River.
- An express train is a fast train service, usually with a limited number of stops.
- The Chevrolet Express is a van built by Chevrolet.
- Express Werke AG was a mid-20th century German bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer.
- The Honda Express is a motor scooter brand by Honda developed in the 1980s.
Popular culture
- Express (song) was a 1974 hit song performed by the B.T. Express.
- Express (album) is the second album by the band Love and Rockets.
Sports
- The Air21 Express, a Philippine basketball team
- The Ra'anana Express, an Israeli baseball team
- The Round Rock Express, a Class AAA baseball team in Round Rock, Texas
Other
- Express (company) is a men's and women's clothing company.
- EXPRESS (ISO 10303-11) is the data modeling language of STEP (ISO 10303).
- In rock climbing "express" is the combination of a tube band sling and two carabiners at each side.
- ExPRESS (Expedite the Processing of Experiments to the Space
Station) is the name of an International Space Station payloads
program, consisting of two types of subsystems:
- Pressurized elements, supported by the ExPRESS Rack
- Unpressurized (external) elements, supported by the ExPRESS Logistics Carrier.
See also
express in German: Express
express in Esperanto: Ekspreso
express in Italian: Espresso
express in Latvian: Express
express in Dutch: Express
express in Swedish: Express
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Amtrak,
Aquarius, Ganymede, Hebe, Hermes, Iris, Mercury, PP, Paul Revere, Pheidippides, RD, RFD, absolute, accurate, admitting no
exception, advice,
affect, affirm, agile, air, air-express, airfreight, airmail, all-out, allege, announce, annunciate, apparent, approve, argue, articulate, assert, assever, asseverate, attest, aver, avouch, avow, baggage train, be indicative
of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bearer, bespeak, betoken, bheesty, book post, brandish, breakneck, breathe, bring forth, bring
forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to life, bring to
notice, broach, busboy, by airmail, by cable, by
express, by return mail, by telegraph, cable railroad, caddie, cargo handler, carrier, carrier pigeon,
carter, categorical, certain, character, characterize, chime, choo-choo, chorus, circulate, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as
day, clear-cut, close, cog
railroad, cog railway, coherent, come out with,
commissionaire,
common carrier, communicate, communication, communique, complete, conceive, concentrate, conclusive, concrete, connected, connote, consign, consistent, constant, contend, convey, conveyer, coolie, correspondence, couch, couch in terms, courier, crisp, crush, crystal-clear, crystalline, cupbearer, dangle, dashing, decided, decisive, declare, decoct, defined, definite, definitive, delicate, delineate, deliver, demonstrate, denominate, denote, depict, describe, designate, detailed, determinate, develop, different, differentiate, diplomatic
courier, direct, direct
mail, direct-mail selling, discernible, discharge, disclose, dispatch, display, distill, distinct, distinguished, divulge, double-quick, downright, drain, dramatize, draw, drayman, drop a letter,
eagle-winged, el, electric, electric train,
elevated, embark, embassy, embody, embody in words, emissary, emit, enact, entail, entire, enunciate, esoteric, especial, essentialize, estafette, even, evidence, evident, evince, evoke, exact, exceptional, exhibit, expedite, expeditious, expel, explicit, export, expose, expose to view, express
train, expressed,
expressman, extract, extraordinary, faithful, fast, final, fine, fixed, flat, flat-out, flaunt, fleet, flier, fling off, flourish, flying, force out, formularize, formulate, forward, fourth-class mail,
frame, frank, freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, furnish evidence,
galloping, get across,
give, give evidence, give
expression, give expression to, give indication of, give out with,
give sign, give token, give tongue, give utterance, give voice,
give words to, global, go
to show, go-between, goods train, gun bearer, hair-trigger,
halfpenny post, hasty,
hauler, have, headlong, highlight, hint, hold, homing pigeon, hustling, identify, illuminate, illustrate, immediate, impart, implicit, imply, import, in posthaste, inappealable, incarnate, indicate, indisputable, individual, indubitable, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, infuse, inner, insist, intend, intended, intentional, interurban, intimate, involve, issue a manifesto, junk
mail, lay down, let out, letter, letter carrier, letter
post, letters, light of
heel, light-footed, lightning express, limited, limn, limpid, lip, litter-bearer, lively, local, loud and clear, lucid, luminous, mail, mail-order selling, mailing
list, maintain, make
clear, make known, make plain, manifest, manifesto, mark, materialize, mathematical, mean, melt down, mercurial, message, message-bearer,
messenger, metro, micrometrically precise,
microscopic, milk
train, minute, monorail, newspaper post,
nice, nimble, nimble-footed, note, noteworthy, noticeable, nuncio, observable, obvious, open-and-shut,
out-and-out, outline,
outright, paint, palpable, parade, paragraph, parcel post,
parliamentary,
parliamentary train, particular, passenger train,
patent, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, peremptory, perfect, perform, personal, perspicuous, phonate, phrase, picture, pinpoint, plain, plain as day, pneumatogram, point to,
porter, portray, positive, post, post day, postboy, posthaste, postrider, pour forth,
precipitate,
precise, predicate, premeditated, present, press out, private, proclaim, produce, profess, prompt, pronounce, protest, put, put about, put across, put
forth, put in words, put it, quick, quick as lightning, quick
as thought, rack-and-pinion railroad, railroad train, raise, rapid, rattler, reckless, redcap, refine, refined, registered mail,
release, religious, religiously exact,
remit, render, represent, respective, reveal, rhetorize, rigid, rigorous, roll out, rolling
stock, round, runner, running, rural delivery, rural
free delivery, say, scientific, scientifically
exact, sea mail, seapost, seeable, self-evident,
self-explaining, self-explanatory, send, send away, send forth, send
off, set, set down, set
forth, set out, several,
severe, shield-bearer,
ship, show, show forth, show signs of,
shuttle, shuttle train,
signalize, signify, simple, singular, sketch, skycap, snappy, soak, solipsistic, sound, spanking, speak, speak for itself, speak
out, speak up, speak volumes, special, special delivery,
special handling, specific, speedy, spell, spotlight, square, stand for, stand on,
state, steep, stevedore, straight, straight-out,
straightforward,
streamliner,
stretcher-bearer, strict,
style, submit, subtle, subway, suggest, surface mail, swift, symbolize, symptomatize, symptomize, tangible, telegram, tell, tend to show, testify, the Water Bearer, throw
off, to be seen, token,
total, train, translucent, transmit, transparent, transpicuous, transporter, trot out, truck
driver, trucker,
true, tube, unambiguous, uncircumscribed,
unconditional,
unconditioned,
unconfused, underground, undeviating, undoubting, unequivocal, unerring, unfold, unhampered, unhesitating, univocal, unlimited, unmistakable, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestioning, unreserved, unrestricted, unwaivable, utter, uttered, vent, ventilate, verbalize, visible, vocalize, voice, voiced, wagoner, water boy, water
carrier, wave, way train,
well-defined, whisper,
whole, winged, without exception,
without reserve, word,
wring, wring out, write