Express vs Deliver - What's the difference?
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(not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
(comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
* Milton
A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
* {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
, title=Death Walks in Eastrepps
, chapter=1/1 A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
An express rifle.
* H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
(obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
* Jeremy Taylor
A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
An express office.
* E. E. Hale
That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
(senseid) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith. As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.}}
To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,
(biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
(biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
(obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.20:
(obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.
* 1646 , (Sir Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , II.5:
To set free.
(label) To do with birth.
# To give birth.
# To assist in the birth of.
# To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).
#* Gower
(label) To free from or disburden of anything.
* (Henry Peacham) (1578-c.1644)
To bring or transport something to its destination.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered .}}
To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
* Bible, (w) xl. 13
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
To express in words, declare, or utter.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 27, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
, title= To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
To discover; to show.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To admit; to allow to pass.
As verbs the difference between express and deliver
is that express is (senseid) to convey or communicate; to make known or explicit while deliver is to set free.As a adjective express
is (not comparable) moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.As a noun express
is a mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly or express can be (obsolete) the action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.express
English
(wikipedia express)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl) expressus, past participle of (exprimere) (see Etymology 2, below).Adjective
(en adjective)- I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.
- This book cannot be copied without the express permission of the publisher.
- In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.
- Their human countenance / The express resemblance of the gods.
Synonyms
* explicit * (of a train) fast, crackAntonyms
* impliedNoun
(es)- I took the express into town.
citation, passage=The train was moving less fast through the summer night. The swift express had changed into something almost a parliamentary, had stopped three times since Norwich, and now, at long last, was approaching Banton.}}
- "Give me my express ," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.
- the only remanent express of Christ's sacrifice on earth
- She charged him to ask at the express if anything came up from town.
- (Eikon Basilike)
Synonyms
* (of a train) fast trainAntonyms
* (of a train) local, stopperEtymology 2
From (etyl) espresser, (expresser), from frequentative form of (etyl) exprimere.Verb
(es)- The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl [...].
Synonyms
* (l), (l)Noun
(expresses)- Whereby they discoursed in silence, and were intuitively understood from the theory of their expresses .
- This Gentleman [...] caused a man to go down no less than a hundred fathom, with express to take notice whether it were hard or soft in the place where it groweth.
deliver
English
Alternative forms
* delivre (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- She was delivered safe and soon.
- Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.
- Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand.
- The constables have delivered her over.
- The exalted mind / All sense of woe delivers to the wind.
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992), passage=It’s a lovely sequence cut too short because the show seems afraid to give itself over to romance and whimsy and wistfulness when it has wedgie jokes to deliver .}}
- shaking his head and delivering some show of tears
- An uninstructed bowler thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward.
- I'll deliver myself your loyal servant.
- (Francis Bacon)