Direct Cross-Language Association: “Express” in German
This word also exists in German! Meaning: “express (mode of transportation, often a train)”
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Direct German Translations & Equivalents:
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Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections
Definitions & Usage
(not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
(comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
(postpositive, retail) Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.
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.
A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
An express rifle.
(obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
An express office.
That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
(transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
(transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
(biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
(biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
(obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
(obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“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.”
— 1949 November and December, “Return to Monthly Publication”, in Railway Magazine, page 351:
“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[…]”
— 1634, John Milton, edited by Homer Sprague, The Mask of Comus, New York: J. W. Schermerhorn & Co., published 1876, page 253:
“The train was moving less fast through the summer night. The swift express had changed into something almost a parliamentary, had stopped three times since Norwich, and now, at long last, was approaching Banton.”
— 1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps: