Definitions for express

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express ex·press

Spelling: [ik-spres]

IPA: /ɪkˈsprɛs/

Express is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in express (eeprssx).

Definitions for express

noun

1. an express train, bus, elevator, etc.
2. a system or method of sending freight, parcels, money, etc., that is faster and safer, but more expensive, than ordinary freight service:
3. a company engaged in this business.
4. British. a messenger or a message specially sent.
5. something sent by express.

adverb

1. by express:
2. Obsolete. expressly.

adjective

1. clearly indicated; distinctly stated; definite; explicit; plain:
2. special; definite:
3. direct or fast, especially making few or no intermediate stops:
4. used for direct or high-speed travel:
5. duly or exactly formed or represented:
6. pertaining to an express:

verb (used with object)

1. to put (thought) into words; utter or state:
2. to show, manifest, or reveal:
3. to set forth the opinions, feelings, etc., of (oneself), as in speaking, writing, or painting:
4. to represent by a symbol, character, figure, or formula:
5. to send by express:
6. to press or squeeze out:
7. to exude or emit (a liquid, odor, etc.), as if under pressure:
8. Genetics. (of a gene) to be active in the production of (a protein or a phenotype).

Origin of express

1275-1325; Middle English expressen Latin expressus (past participle of exprimere). See ex-¹, press¹

Examples for express

Like many non-religious people around the world, I use the Internet to express my thoughts.

The idea that I might simply want to express my independent thoughts was alien to them.

I knew not what to say; or rather how to express what I had to say.

It has not; and we venture to express our confident belief, that it never will.

The second is strangled tongue disease, the English inability to express real feelings in conversation.

Of course, police have constitutional rights to express themselves.

Did Phidias express no anxiety concerning your unprotected situation?

He prefers to express himself through Twitter and leave it at that.

I cannot find words to express my feelings on that point at all.

He says, he will convince you of his love by deeds, since he is not permitted by you to express it by words.