expeditionary | (adjective) (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad | - |
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expeditious | (adjective) marked by speed and efficiency | - |
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expeditiously | (adverb) with efficiency; in an efficient manner | Synonyms: efficiently |
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expeditiousness | (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expedition |
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expel | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, exhaust, release |
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(verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: rout, rout out |
(verb) force to leave or move out | Synonyms: kick out, throw out |
(verb) remove from a position or office | Synonyms: boot out, drum out, kick out, oust, throw out |
expelling | (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: discharge, emission |
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expend | (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
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(verb) pay out | Synonyms: drop, spend |
expendable | (adjective) suitable to be expended | - |
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(adjective) (used of funds) remaining after taxes | Synonyms: spendable |
expender | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: disburser, spender |
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expending | (noun) the act of spending money for goods or services | Synonyms: expenditure |
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expenditure | (noun) the act of spending money for goods or services | Synonyms: expending |
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(noun) the act of consuming something | Synonyms: consumption, using up |
(noun) money paid out; an amount spent | Synonyms: outgo, outlay, spending |
expense | (noun) a detriment or sacrifice | - |
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(noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, disbursement |
(noun) money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer | - |
(verb) reduce the estimated value of something | Synonyms: write down, write off |
expensive | (adjective) high in price or charging high prices | - |
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expensively | (adverb) in an expensive manner | - |
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expensiveness | (noun) the quality of being high-priced | - |
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experience | (noun) the content of direct observation or participation in an event | - |
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(noun) the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities | - |
(noun) an event as apprehended | - |
(verb) undergo | Synonyms: have |
(verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: know, live |
(verb) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind | Synonyms: feel |
(verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: get, have, receive |
(verb) undergo or live through a difficult experience | Synonyms: go through, see |
experienced | (adjective) having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation | Synonyms: experient |
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experient | (adjective) having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation | Synonyms: experienced |
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experiential | (adjective) relating to or resulting from experience | - |
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(adjective) derived from experience or the experience of existence | Synonyms: existential |
experiment | (noun) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation | Synonyms: experimentation |
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(noun) a venture at something new or different | - |
(noun) the testing of an idea | Synonyms: experimentation |
(verb) to conduct a test or investigation | - |
(verb) try something new, as in order to gain experience | Synonyms: try out |
experimental | (adjective) relating to or based on experiment | - |
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(adjective) relying on observation or experiment | Synonyms: data-based, observational |
(adjective) of the nature of or undergoing an experiment | - |
experimentalism | (noun) an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation | - |
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(noun) an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles | - |
experimentally | (adverb) in an experimental fashion | Synonyms: by experimentation, through an experiment |
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experimentation | (noun) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation | Synonyms: experiment |
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(noun) the testing of an idea | Synonyms: experiment |
experimenter | (noun) a research worker who conducts experiments | - |
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(noun) a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas | - |
expert | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, good, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
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(adjective) of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood | Synonyms: technical |
(noun) a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully | - |
expertise | (noun) skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge | Synonyms: expertness |
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expertly | (adverb) in an expert manner | Synonyms: like an expert |
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expertness | (noun) skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge | Synonyms: expertise |
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expiable | (adjective) capable of being atoned for | - |
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expiate | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, abye, atone |
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expiation | (noun) the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) | Synonyms: atonement, propitiation |
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(noun) compensation for a wrong | Synonyms: atonement, satisfaction |
expiative | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiatory, propitiatory |
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expiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, propitiatory |
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expiration | (noun) the act of expelling air from the lungs | Synonyms: breathing out, exhalation |
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(noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, going, loss, passing, release |
(noun) a coming to an end of a contract period | Synonyms: expiry, termination |
expiratory | (adjective) of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration | - |
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expire | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, exhale |
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(verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
(verb) lose validity | Synonyms: run out |
expired | (adjective) having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time | - |
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expiry | (noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: death, decease |
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(noun) a coming to an end of a contract period | Synonyms: expiration, termination |
explain | (verb) make plain and comprehensible | Synonyms: explicate |
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(verb) define | - |
(verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: excuse |
explainable | (adjective) capable of being understood | Synonyms: interpretable |
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explanandum | (noun) (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained | Synonyms: explicandum |
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explanans | (noun) (logic) statements that explain the explicandum; the explanatory premises | - |
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explanation | (noun) thought that makes something comprehensible | - |
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(noun) a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. | Synonyms: account |
(noun) the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible | - |
explanatory | (adjective) serving or intended to explain or make clear | - |
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expletive | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, oath, swearing, swearword |
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(noun) a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line | - |
explicable | (adjective) capable of being explicated or accounted for | - |
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explicandum | (noun) (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained | Synonyms: explanandum |
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explicate | (verb) make plain and comprehensible | Synonyms: explain |
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(verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: develop, formulate |
explication | (noun) a detailed explanation of the meaning of something | - |
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(noun) the act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol or expression etc. | - |
explicit | (adjective) precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication | Synonyms: expressed |
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(adjective) in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term | Synonyms: denotative |
explicitly | (adverb) in an explicit manner | - |
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explicitness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being explicit | - |
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explode | (verb) burst outward, usually with noise | Synonyms: burst |
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(verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, detonate, set off |
(verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: irrupt |
(verb) be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise | Synonyms: break loose, burst forth |
(verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, detonate |
(verb) show a violent emotional reaction | - |
(verb) show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete | - |
(verb) drive from the stage by noisy disapproval | - |
(verb) cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/ | - |
(verb) destroy by exploding | - |
exploded | (adjective) showing the parts of something separated but in positions that show their correct relation to one another | - |
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exploit | (noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: effort, feat |
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(verb) use or manipulate to one's advantage | Synonyms: work |
(verb) draw from; make good use of | Synonyms: tap |
(verb) work excessively hard | Synonyms: overwork |
exploitation | (noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: development |
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(noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: using, victimisation, victimization |
exploitative | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitatory, exploitive |
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exploitatory | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitive |
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exploited | (adjective) developed or used to greatest advantage | - |
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(adjective) (of persons) taken advantage of | Synonyms: ill-used, put-upon, used, victimised, victimized |
exploiter | (noun) a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically | Synonyms: user |
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exploitive | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitatory |
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exploration | (noun) a careful systematic search | - |
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(noun) to travel for the purpose of discovery | Synonyms: geographic expedition |
(noun) a systematic consideration | - |
explorative | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: exploratory |
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exploratory | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: explorative |
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explore | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: research, search |
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(verb) travel to or penetrate into | - |
(verb) inquire into a subject in detail | - |
(verb) examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes | - |
explorer | (noun) someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) | Synonyms: adventurer |
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explosion | (noun) the act of exploding or bursting | Synonyms: burst |
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(noun) a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball | - |
(noun) the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant | Synonyms: plosion |
(noun) a sudden outburst | - |
(noun) a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction | Synonyms: blowup, detonation |
(noun) a sudden great increase | - |
(noun) the noise caused by an explosion | - |
explosive | (adjective) serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst | - |
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(adjective) sudden and loud | - |
(adjective) liable to lead to sudden change or violence | Synonyms: volatile |
(noun) a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck | - |
explosively | (adverb) suddenly and rapidly | - |
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(adverb) in an explosive manner | - |
expo | (noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: exhibition, exposition |
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exponent | (noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | Synonyms: index, power |
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(noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, advocator, proponent |
(noun) someone who expounds and interprets or explains | - |
exponential | (adjective) of or involving exponents | - |
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(noun) a function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent | Synonyms: exponential function |
exponentially | (adverb) in an exponential manner | - |
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exponentiation | (noun) the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power | Synonyms: involution |
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export | (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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(verb) cause to spread in another part of the world | - |
(verb) sell or transfer abroad | - |
(verb) transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs | - |
exportable | (adjective) suitable for export | - |
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exportation | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exporting |
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(noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: export |
exporter | (noun) a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale) | - |
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exporting | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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expose | (noun) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud | Synonyms: unmasking |
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(verb) abandon by leaving out in the open air | - |
(verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: debunk |
(verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
(verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, peril, queer, scupper |
(verb) remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body | Synonyms: uncover |
(verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, exhibit |
(verb) expose to light, of photographic film | - |
(verb) expose or make accessible to some action or influence | - |
(verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: disclose, uncover |
exposed | (adjective) not covered with clothing | Synonyms: uncovered |
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(adjective) with no protection or shield | Synonyms: open |
exposit | (verb) state | Synonyms: expound, set forth |
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(verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
exposition | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: expounding |
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(noun) an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse | - |
(noun) (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur | - |
(noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: exhibition, expo |
expositive | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expository |
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expositor | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expounder |
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expository | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expositive |
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expostulate | (verb) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | - |
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expostulation | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: objection, remonstrance, remonstration |
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(noun) an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof | - |
exposure | (noun) abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open) | - |
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(noun) the act of exposing film to light | - |
(noun) presentation to view in an open or public manner | - |
(noun) the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience | - |
(noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: photo, photograph, pic, picture |
(noun) vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain | - |
(noun) aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces | - |
(noun) the disclosure of something secret | - |
(noun) the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate | - |
(noun) the state of being vulnerable or exposed | Synonyms: vulnerability |
expound | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, flesh out, lucubrate |
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(verb) state | Synonyms: exposit, set forth |
expounder | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expositor |
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expounding | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: exposition |
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express | (adjective) not tacit or implied | - |
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(adjective) without unnecessary stops | - |
(noun) rapid transport of goods | Synonyms: expressage |
(noun) public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops | Synonyms: limited |
(noun) mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system | Synonyms: express mail |
(adverb) by express | - |
(verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
(verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, show |
(verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, convey |
(verb) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. | Synonyms: state |
(verb) send by rapid transport or special messenger service | - |
(verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: extract, press out |
(verb) manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait) | - |
expressage | (noun) rapid transport of goods | Synonyms: express |
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expressed | (adjective) precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication | Synonyms: explicit |
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(adjective) communicated in words | Synonyms: uttered, verbalised, verbalized, voiced |
expressible | (adjective) capable of being expressed | - |
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expression | (noun) the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing | - |
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(noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, face, facial expression, look |
(noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: locution, saying |
(noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: formulation |
(noun) expression without words | Synonyms: manifestation, reflection, reflexion |
(noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: formula |
(noun) the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions | Synonyms: verbal expression, verbalism |
(noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: construction, grammatical construction |
(noun) (genetics) the process of expressing a gene | - |
expressionism | (noun) an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality | - |
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expressionist | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionistic |
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(noun) an artist who is an adherent of expressionism | - |