express
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Is express a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.Synonyms: fast, crack
2. (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.Examples: "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."; "Beginning with the next issue, which will be the January, 1950, issue, this magazine will be published on the first of every month. This step has been taken at the express wish of readers despite the present paper and production difficulties."Synonyms: explicit, plain, clear, direct, explicit, express, monosemic, monosemousAntonyms: implied
3. (postpositive, retail) Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.Examples: "Tesco Express"; "McDonald's Express"
noun (English)
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.Antonyms: local, stopper
2. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.Examples: "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, […]"
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.Examples: "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."; "Services during Yom Kippur are held continuously through the day and include readings from the Torah and the reciting of prayers expressing regret or asking for forgiveness."
2. (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).Examples: "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."; "They don’t have teats, so the mothers express their milk onto their bellies for their young to feed."
3. (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
4. (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.Examples: "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."
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.Examples: "Whereby they discoursed in silence, and were intuitively understood from the theory of their expresses."
2. (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.Examples: "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."
Definition source: Wiktionary