Expression

Noun

 * 1) A particular way of phrasing an idea.
 * 2) A colloquialism or idiom.
 * The expression "break a leg!" should not be taken literally.
 * 1) A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
 * They stared at the newcomer with a puzzled expression.
 * The best poker players can tell if the opponents have a good hand by looking at their expression.
 * Her expression changed from joy to misery after realising her winning lottery ticket had expired.
 * 1)  An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
 * 2)  The process of translating a gene into a protein.
 * 3)  A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
 * 4) Of a mother, the process of expressing milk.

Derived terms

 * arithmetic expression
 * linguistic expression
 * logical expression
 * regular expression

Related terms

 * express
 * expressive
 * expressionless
 * expressionism
 * expressible

Adjectives for Expression
adequate; affable; affected; agonized; airy; alchemistical; all-conquering; altered; amazed; ambiguous; angelic; animated; anxious; apologetic; appalled; appealing; appraising; appropriate; arbitrary; arrogant; artistic; assertive; astonished; austere; banal; beatific; belligerent; benevolent; bewildered; bitter; blameless; bland; bleak; broken; brutish; buoyant; cabalistical; calm; capricious; careless; caressing; ceremonious; characteristic; charming; chastened; chivalric; calculating; comical; commanding; conciliatory; confidential; consecrated; conspicuous; consummate; contemplative; contemptuous; contended; contrite; countless (pi) ; courteous; creative; criminal; crystalline; cunning; curious; dazed; deceptive; deliberate; delicate; demoniac; demonstrative; demure; depressed; despairing; di¬abolic; disagreeable; disdainful; distaste¬ful; dolorous; dithyrambic; dogged; dominant; dramatic; dreamy; dubious; dumb; ear-pleasing; eager; earnest; ecstatic; elegant; embossed; emotionless; emphatic; encouraging; equivocal; etherealized; exalted; evanescent; expectant;  exterior;  facial; faintest; fanglike; faraway; far-off; felicitous; feline; ferocious; fervent; fiendish; fierce; figurative; fine; fixed; fleeting; forbidding; forced; forlorn; formidable; freezing; frequent; frightened; frowning; frustrated ; fundamental; furtive; genial; gentle; gladsome; glazed; gloomy; glorified; graceful; grammatical; grave; grim; habitual; grotesque; grouchy; haggard; half-absorbed; half-articulate; half-humorous; half-downright; half-pathetic; half-hearted; half-indulgent; half-suspicious; hangdog; happy; hard; hard-set; haunting; heartbroken; hearty; hereditary; homely; honest; hopeless; horrible; horrid; hospitable; humorous; ideal; idiotic; idyllic; ill-natured; imaginative; imbecilic; immobile; impassioned; imploring; implied; impressive; incidental; incredulous; indescribable; indignant; indirect; infinite; injured; inquiring; inscrutable; instinctive; intense; intent; introspective; jolly; journalistic; jovial; joyous; kindly; knowing; lackluster; legitimate; listening; listless; literary; lofty; lovable; lucid; lugubrious; luminous; majestic; malign; martial;  martyrlike;  maudlin; meaningful; meek; melancholy; melodious; memorable; menacing; merry; metaphysical; mirthless; moody; momentary; moral; mutinous; mysterious; mystic; noble; noncommittal; nonsensical; nostalgic; noteworthy; odd; ominous; open; outward; owlish; plain; pleasing; pantomimic; particular; passionate; patriotic; peculiar; pedantic; peevish; pensive; perfect; periphrastic; perplexed; pessimistic; petulant; physiognomic; pithy; pitiful; placid; plaintive; plastic; pleasant; poetic; poignant; popular; portentous; predatory; preoccupied; prim; professional; proper; provoking; prose; puzzled; quaint; quarrelsome; queer; questioning; quiet; quizzical; radiant; rapt; rare; rebuked; reckless; relaxed; remarkable; repelling; resentful; resolute; respective; rueful; sagacious; sad; sarcastic; sardonic; saturnine; saucy; savage; secretive; self-concentrated; seraphic; serio-comic; serious; set; severe; sharp; sheepish; shocked; shrewd; sicklied; significant; sincere; singular; sinister; slight; slow; sly; smileless; smug; soft; softened; solemn; soothing; sorrowful; sour; spacious; superb; spirited; spontaneous; sprightliest; stealthy; stern; stony; strained; structural; submissive; subtle; sulky; sullen; surprised; sweet; synonymous; taut; technical; tender; tense; theoretical; thoughtful; thought-saving; thwarted; tragic; transparent; treasonable; trite; triumphal; triumphant; troubled; truculent; ultimate; unanimous; unbelieving; unbounded; uncompromising; unelaborated; unconscious; uneasy; unfit; unforgettable; unguarded; uniform; unmoved; unstudied; unusual; upright; vacant; vague; various (pi) ; vehement; venomous; vibratory; vicarious; vicious; victorious; vindictive; violent; virtuous; visual; vivacious; vivid voluble; warlike; warm; wary; wavering Well-bred; whimsical; wild; wily; wistful woebegone; wondering; wordless; worn worried; wry; yearning.

Verbs for Expression
achieve —; assume —; crave —; cry out for —; cultivate —; distort —; divest of —; efface —; fathom —; fix —; limit —; recollect —; stifle —; strive toward —; struggle for —; translate —; understand —; wear —; — congeals; — plays; — settles.

Thesaurus
Christophany, Parthian shot, Satanophany, accent, adage, address, adjectival phrase, affirmation, air, airing, allegation, ana, analects, angelophany, announcement, answer, antonym, aphorism, apostrophe, apothegm, appearance, ardor, articulateness, articulation, aspect, assertion, asseveration, avatar, averment, avulsion, axiom, byword, cantando, cast, catchword, characterization, choice of words, clause, collected sayings, command of language, command of words, comment, communication, composition, concentration, construction, countenance, crack, current saying, cutting out, declaration, decoction, delivery, demilegato, demonstration, denomination, denotation, depth, deracination, designation, dialect, dictate, diction, dictum, differentiation, disclosure, disentanglement, dissemination, distich, distillation, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, effective style, eloquence, eloquent tongue, embodiment, emotion, enucleation, enunciation, epigram, epiphany, eradication, evidence, evincement, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, exclamation, execution, expressiveness, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, face, facundity, feeling, felicitousness, felicity, fingering, formulation, free form, gesture, gift of expression, gift of gab, glibness, glissando, gnome, golden saying, grammar, graphicness, greeting, headed group, hint, homograph, homonym, homophone, identification, idiom, idiotism, incarnation, indication, indicativeness, infusion, intensity, interjection, intonation, issue, language, legato, lexeme, linguistic form, locution, logos, look, loudness, manifestation, manner of speaking, materialization, maxim, meaning, meaningfulness, mention, metonym, mezzo staccato, mien, minimum free form, mining, monosyllable, moral, mot, motto, music-making, naming, note, noun phrase, nuance, observation, oracle, oratory, paragraph, parlance, parlando, passion, pathos, peculiar expression, performance, period, phrasal idiom, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pianism, picking out, pithy saying, pizzicato, pneumatophany, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, polysyllable, position, precept, prescript, pressing, pressing out, pronouncement, proof, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, publication, pulling, quarrying, question, reflection, remark, reminder, removal, rendering, rendition, repercussion, representation, revelation, rhetoric, ripping out, rubato, saw, say, saying, selection, sensitivity, sentence, sententious expression, set phrase, shading, show, showing, sign, signification, silver tongue, slickness, sloka, slur, smoothness, soaking, softness, specification, speech, spiccato, spirit, squeezing, squeezing out, staccato, standard phrase, statement, steeping, stock saying, style, subjoinder, suggestion, sutra, syllable, symbol, symptomaticness, synonym, syntactic structure, talk, teaching, term, text, theophany, thought, token, tone, touch, turn of expression, turn of phrase, unrooting, uprooting, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, utterance, vent, verb complex, verb phrase, verbalism, verbalization, verbiage, verbum, verse, visage, vividness, vocable, voice, voicing, way of speaking, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, withdrawal, witticism, word, word-group, wordage, wording, words of wisdom, wresting out

Etymology
From <  expressio:.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: արտահայտություն (artahaytut'yun)
 * Catalan: expressió
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (biǎoshì)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: sõnastus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: გამოთქმა
 * German:
 * Greek:, διατύπωση
 * Hebrew:, הבעה


 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 表現 (ひょうげん, hyōgen), 言い回し (いいまわし, iimawashi)
 * Korean: 표현 (pyohyeon)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, ifade
 * Ukrainian: вислів


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: արտահայտություն (artahaytut'yun)
 * Catalan: expressió
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (biǎoshì)
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: esprimilo, idiomaĵo
 * Estonian: ütlus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:, אמירה
 * Hungarian: szólás, szóhasználat
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 表現 (ひょうげん, hyōgen)
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: вислів


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: (sīmā’)
 * Armenian: արտահայտություն (artahaytut'yun)
 * Catalan: expressió
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (biǎoqíng)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: mieno,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: გამომეტყველება (gamometq‘veleba), სახის გამომეტყველება (saxis gamometq‘veleba)
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,  μορφασμός
 * Hawaiian: maka
 * Hebrew: הבעה
 * Hindi: bhavana
 * Hungarian: arckifejezés
 * Interlingua:
 * Interlingua:
 * Interlingua:
 * Interlingua:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 表情 (ひょうじょう, hyōjō)
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian: išraiška
 * Mongolian: нүүрний байдал
 * Norwegian: uttrykk;mine
 * Persian: روبہ
 * Polish: mina, wyraz twarzy
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: expresie
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Thai: (sĕe nâa),  (rôop râang)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: вираз
 * Welsh: mynegyn
 * Yiddish: אויסדרוק (oysdruk)
 * Thai: (sĕe nâa),  (rôop râang)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: вираз
 * Welsh: mynegyn
 * Yiddish: אויסדרוק (oysdruk)
 * Yiddish: אויסדרוק (oysdruk)


 * Armenian: արտահայտություն (artahaytut'yun)
 * Catalan: expressió
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (fúhào)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: avaldis
 * Finnish: lauseke, (määritelmä)
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek: παράσταση, διατύπωση,
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: expresie
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: вираз


 * Catalan: expressió
 * Estonian: ekspressioon, avaldumine
 * Finnish:


 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan: expressió
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: avaldis
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Interlingua:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 数式 (すうしき, sūshiki), 式 (しき, shiki)
 * Mandarin: 表达式
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * : ekspresi, pernyataan
 * : expression


 * : 표현 (pyohyeon)
 * : expresie
 * : expresión

Etymology
From expressio:.

Noun

 * 1) expression

Etymology
From expressio:.

Noun

 * 1) expression