| expression | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. aspect, expression, face, facial expression, look | the feelings expressed on a person's face.; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face" |
| ~ countenance, visage | the appearance conveyed by a person's face.; "a pleasant countenance"; "a stern visage" |
| ~ leer | a suggestive or sneering look or grin. |
| ~ sparkle, spark, twinkle, light | merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance.; "he had a sparkle in his eye"; "there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes" |
| n. (communication) | 2. expression, manifestation, reflection, reflexion | expression without words.; "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition" |
| ~ lamentation, mourning | the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief. |
| ~ demo, demonstration | a visual presentation showing how something works.; "the lecture was accompanied by dramatic demonstrations"; "the lecturer shot off a pistol as a demonstration of the startle response" |
| ~ act | a manifestation of insincerity.; "he put on quite an act for her benefit" |
| ~ ebullition, effusion, outburst, blowup, gush | an unrestrained expression of emotion. |
| n. (communication) | 3. expression, verbal expression, verbalism | the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions.; "expressions of good will"; "he helped me find verbal expression for my ideas"; "the idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours" |
| ~ communicating, communication | the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information.; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow" |
| ~ articulation, voice | expressing in coherent verbal form.; "the articulation of my feelings"; "I gave voice to my feelings" |
| ~ cold turkey | a blunt expression of views.; "I told him cold turkey" |
| ~ felicitation, congratulation | (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another.; "I sent them my sincere congratulations on their marriage" |
| n. (communication) | 4. expression, locution, saying | a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations.; "pardon the expression" |
| ~ beatitude | one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed).; "her favorite Beatitude is `Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth'" |
| ~ logion | a saying of Jesus that is regarded as authentic although it is not recorded in the Gospels. |
| ~ calque, calque formation, loan translation | an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language.; "`superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch'" |
| ~ advice and consent | a legal expression in the United States Constitution that allows the Senate to constrain the President's powers of appointment and treaty-making. |
| ~ ambiguity | an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context. |
| ~ euphemism | an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh. |
| ~ dysphemism | an offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one.; "his favorite dysphemism was to ask for axle grease when he wanted butter" |
| ~ shucks | an expression of disappointment or irritation. |
| ~ oral communication, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication, language, speech | (language) communication by word of mouth.; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets" |
| ~ tongue twister | an expression that is difficult to articulate clearly.; "`rubber baby buggy bumper' is a tongue twister" |
| ~ anatomical, anatomical reference | an expression that relates to anatomy. |
| ~ southernism | a locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States. |
| ~ catchword, motto, shibboleth, slogan | a favorite saying of a sect or political group. |
| ~ axiom, maxim | a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits. |
| ~ epigram, quip | a witty saying. |
| ~ adage, byword, proverb, saw | a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people. |
| ~ idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, set phrase, phrase, idiom | an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up. |
| ~ agrapha | sayings of Jesus not recorded in the canonical Gospels. |
| ~ sumpsimus | a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression.; "he preferred his erroneous but pleasing mumpsimus to the correct sumpsimus" |
| n. (communication) | 5. expression, formulation | the style of expressing yourself.; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared" |
| ~ sentimentalism | the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form. |
| ~ expressive style, style | a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period.; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper" |
| ~ honorific | an expression of respect.; "the Japanese use many honorifics" |
| ~ archaicism, archaism | the use of an archaic expression. |
| ~ boilerplate | standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories. |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ idiom, parlance | a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language. |
| ~ americanism | an expression that is characteristic of English as spoken by Americans. |
| ~ anglicism, briticism, britishism | an expression that is used in Great Britain (especially as contrasted with American English). |
| ~ choice of words, phraseology, wording, diction, phrasing, verbiage | the manner in which something is expressed in words.; "use concise military verbiage" |
| n. (communication) | 6. expression, formula | a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement. |
| ~ math, mathematics, maths | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement. |
| ~ sentential function | formal expression containing variables; becomes a sentence when variables are replaced by constants. |
| ~ primitive | a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived. |
| ~ mathematical statement | a statement of a mathematical relation. |
| ~ exponential expression | a mathematical expression consisting of a constant (especially e) raised to some power. |
| n. (process) | 7. expression | (genetics) the process of expressing a gene. |
| ~ genetic science, genetics | the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms. |
| ~ biological process, organic process | a process occurring in living organisms. |
| n. (communication) | 8. construction, expression, grammatical construction | a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit.; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner" |
| ~ adjunct | a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence. |
| ~ grammatical constituent, constituent | (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction. |
| ~ clause | (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence. |
| ~ complement | a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction. |
| ~ involution | a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction. |
| ~ phrase | an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence. |
| ~ predicator | an expression that predicates. |
| n. (act) | 9. expression | the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing.; "the expression of milk from her breast" |
| ~ squeeze, squeezing | the act of gripping and pressing firmly.; "he gave her cheek a playful squeeze" |
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