express

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɪkˈspɹɛs/

Noun

obsolete

A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly. / A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another. / An express rifle.

Japanese Meaning

急行（列車など、速く直通で運行する乗り物） / 速達便（郵便や資金の即時送付サービス） / 特定の銃、すなわちエクスプレスライフル

What is this buttons?

I caught the express to the city and arrived in half the time.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

私は街行きの急行列車に乗って、いつもの半分の時間で到着しました。

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Sense（1）

A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.

I took the express into town.

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Sense（2）

A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.

Sense（3）

An express rifle.

"Give me my express," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.

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Sense（4）

(obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.

And this [holy communion] being the great myſtery of Chriſtianity, and the onely remanent expreſſe of Chriſts ſacrifice on earth, it is moſt conſonant to the Analogy of the myſtery, that this commemorative ſacrifice be preſented by perſons as ſeparate, and diſtinct in our miniſtery, […]

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Sense（5）

A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.

I learned, to my inexpressible terror, that at two o'clock, the day before, an express had been sent to Geraldine by Mr Bergasse, with a letter, which he had received from the Hotel de Romagnecourt.

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