English Explanatory Dictionary

expression

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
  2. A particular way of phrasing an idea.
  3. A colloquialism or idiom.
  4. A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
  5. An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
  6. The process of translating a gene into a protein.
  7. A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
  8. A specific blend of whisky.
  9. The act of pressing or squeezing out.
  10. The tone of voice or sound in music.
  11. Emotional involvement or engagement in a text read aloud rendered by the voice of the reciter or the reader.

Pronunciation

/əkˈspɹɛʃ.n̩/ /ɛkˈspɹɛʃ.n̩/ en-us-expression.ogg

Word forms

expression expressions

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French expression, from Late Latin expressiō, expressiōnem (“a pressing out”). Morphologically express + -ion.

Related words

expression pedal

Derived words

agroexpression bioexpression coexpression downexpression dysexpression express expressible expressional expressionful expressionism expressionist expressionless expressionlet expression of interest expression stop expression template expressive facial expression freedom of expression free expression gender expression gene expression hyperexpression hypoexpression immunoexpression inexpression infraexpression microexpression misexpression multi-word expression multiword expression neoexpression nonexpression overexpression pardon the expression reexpression R-expression RNA expression pattern RNA expression profile self-expression S-expression simplified expression subexpression superexpression surexpression symbolic expression synexpression underexpression upexpression viscoexpression
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