Express vs Give - 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.
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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.
*
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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:
(may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
# To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
# To make a present or gift of.
# To pledge.
# To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
# To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in.
# To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
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# To pass (something) into (someone's) hand or the like.
# To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
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(may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
To yield slightly when a force is applied.
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To collapse under pressure or force.
To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
* 2003 , Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function , page 153
* 2006 , Christopher Matthew Spencer The Ebay Entrepreneur , page 248
To lead (onto or into).
To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
* Shakespeare
To allow or admit by way of supposition.
* Milton
To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
* Sheridan
To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
(dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
* Rowe
* Alexander Pope
(reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
To become soft or moist.
To shed tears; to weep.
* Shakespeare
To have a misgiving.
* J. Webster
To be going on, to be occurring
(uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.
In lang=en terms the difference between express and give
is that express is to press, squeeze out (especially said of milk) while give is to lead (onto or into).As nouns the difference between express and give
is that 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 while give is (uncountable) the amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.As verbs the difference between express and give
is that express is (senseid) to convey or communicate; to make known or explicit while give is (may take two objects) to move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.As an adjective express
is (not comparable) moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.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.
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- "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.
give
English
Verb
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- Study gives' strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to '''give''' stiffness, the other suppleness: one ' gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.
- A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".
- The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
- But there the duke was given to understand / That in a gondola were seen together / Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.
- I give not heaven for lost.
- I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover.
- It is given me once again to behold my friend.
- Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.
- The soldiers give themselves to plunder.
- That boy is given to fits of bad temper.
- (Francis Bacon)
- Whose eyes do never give / But through lust and laughter.
- My mind gives ye're reserved / To rob poor market women.
Synonyms
* (transfer possession of) donate, pass, transfer * (bend slightly when a force is applied) bend, cede, flex, move, yield * (estimate or predict) estimate, guess, predict * (provide)Antonyms
* (transfer possession of) get, obtain, receive, take * (bend slightly when a force is applied) not bend/cede/flex/give/move/yield, resistDerived terms
See also'' given''', '''giver''' ''and'' ' giving * forgive * * give and take * give away * give away the store * give back * give birth * give forth * give head * give in * give it one's all * give it one's best shot * give it up for * given * give off * give one's all * give one's daughter away * give on to * give or take * give out * give over * give pause * give someone a break * give someone a chance * give someone a kiss * give someone grief * give someone the business * give someone the time of day * give something a miss * give something a shot * give something a try * give thanks * give to understand * give up * give way * it is better to give than to receive * something's got to give * what gives? * you only get what you giveNoun
(-)- This chair doesn't have much give .