English Dictionary

express

/ɪkˈspɹɛs/

noun

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.

I prefer to express myself through art.

意味（1）

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

I took the express into town.

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

An express rifle.

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

意味（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, […]

意味（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.

意味（6）

An express office.

She charged him […] to ask at the express if anything came up from town.

意味（7）

That which is sent by an express messenger or message.

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