express

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So, for now, I can just express sympathy- this situation sucks.

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Quick take

mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of express gathered in one view.

noun

mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system

noun

public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops; "he caught the express to New York"

noun

rapid transport of goods

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for express.

noun

mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system

noun

public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops; "he caught the express to New York"

noun

rapid transport of goods

verb

give expression to; "She showed her disappointment"

verb

articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse"

verb

serve as a means for expressing something; "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of anger"

verb

indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.; "Can you express this distance in kilometers?"

verb

manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait); "Many of the laboratory animals express the trait"

verb

obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"

verb

send by rapid transport or special messenger service; "She expressed the letter to Florida"

adjective

not tacit or implied; "her express wish"

adjective

without unnecessary stops; "an express train"; "an express shipment"

adverb

by express; "please send the letter express"

Example sentences

So, for now, I can just express sympathy- this situation sucks.

Their code of conduct also states that you may not take pictures of people without their express consent.

If it's an express train, it may blaze right through that stop, in which case you'll be backtracking on a train for the second time today!

We need a tool for lawyers/lawmakers to help them express the consequences of a bill in a definitive manner.

In his view, the only way to get rid of depression would be to allow this anger to express itself against the actual external force.

Unfortunately, mostly for social reasons, it's hard to express this preference.

If you are unhappy, you have little recourse but to express your own power by indirect passive-aggressive means.

Scala is trying to provide a language that can express the low level plumbing as Java can, but also that can express the high level meta-language.

Nowhere is there any express private right of action that gives any private citizen the right to file suit complaining about alleged violations of these laws.

Because Curl has this weird in-between setting, which does not express any security policy I can figure out, they're effectively not verifying certificates.

> I've a friend who spent a good deal of time recently in Khazakhstan, and she was very amused by my attempts to express my fears of the United States becoming an authoritarian police state.

I've a friend who spent a good deal of time recently in Khazakhstan, and she was very amused by my attempts to express my fears of the United States becoming an authoritarian police state.

You also know that if you tried to express the concept defined in a previous sentence, but without using names for measures involved, and a notation for a value a measure assigns to some set, the sentence would come out awkward and complicated, because you would have to say that a measure is absolutely continuous with respect to some other measure, if whenever that other measure assigns a zero value to some set, the value assigned to that set by the first measure must be zero as well.