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express | unlachrymose |

As adjectives the difference between express and unlachrymose

is that express is (not comparable) moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops while unlachrymose is not lachrymose.

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.

As a verb express

is (senseid) to convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.

express

Etymology 1

From (etyl) , from (etyl) expressus, past participle of (exprimere) (see Etymology 2, below).

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
  • (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
  • 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.
  • Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
  • In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.
  • * Milton
  • Their human countenance / The express resemblance of the gods.
    Synonyms
    * explicit * (of a train) fast, crack
    Antonyms
    * implied

    Noun

    (es)
  • A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
  • I took the express into town.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
  • , title=Death Walks in Eastrepps , chapter=1/1 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.}}
  • 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
  • "Give me my express ," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.
  • (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • the only remanent express of Christ's sacrifice on earth
  • A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
  • An express office.
  • * E. E. Hale
  • She charged him to ask at the express if anything came up from town.
  • That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
  • (Eikon Basilike)
    Synonyms
    * (of a train) fast train
    Antonyms
    * (of a train) local, stopper

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) espresser, (expresser), from frequentative form of (etyl) exprimere.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (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) ,
  • 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 [...].
  • (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
  • (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
  • Synonyms
    * (l), (l)

    Noun

    (expresses)
  • (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.20:
  • Whereby they discoursed in silence, and were intuitively understood from the theory of their expresses .
  • (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.
  • * 1646 , (Sir Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , II.5:
  • 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.

    unlachrymose

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not lachrymose.
  • # Free from dejection and melancholy; not vexed or weighed down by circumstances.
  • #* 1852 : The New Monthly Magazine , volume 95, page 324
  • The only articulate sounds that could be distinguished, were the impatient exclamations of hungry soldiers, clamouring for their schnapps and suppers, and throwing the toiling sutlers into a frenzy of bewilderment.?The spectacle, too, was of an equally joyous and unlachrymose description.
  • # Tearless; not given to crying.
  • #* 1853 : Notes and Queries , volume 7, page 97
  • When the devil was going out of the possessed person, he was supposed to do so with reluctance: “The spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.” (St. Mark, ix. 26.)?The tears and struggles of the infant would therefore be a convincing proof that the Evil One had departed.?In Ireland (as every clergyman knows) nurses will decide the matter by pinching the baby, rather than allow him to remain silent and unlachrymose .
  • #* 1944 : Franklin Pierce Adams, Nods and Becks , page 126 (Whittlesey House)
  • And as to the slumber of infants, it is no guess of mine that to sleep like a baby is not always to lie quiet and unlachrymose all night.
  • # Unsentimental.
  • ## Unamenable to appeals of emotion.
  • ##* 1975 : The Spectator , volume 235, part 2, page 13 (F.C. Westley)
  • #
    But the really dangerous people would be the servants, la valetaille et la piétaille , the cold-eyed, unimpressionable, unlachrymose , and, when encountered in a corridor, insolent observers of Rousseau’s magisterial performances.
  • ## Not schmaltzy; expressed without gratuitous sorrow.
  • ##* 1983 : Jean Pierre Coursodon et alii'', ''American Directors , volume 1, page 112 (McGraw-Hill; ISBN 0070132615, 9780070132610)
  • #
    His films with Temple are surprisingly light and unlachrymose .
  • ##* 1984 : Alan Blyth and Malcolm Walker [eds.], Opera on Record , volume 2, page 126 (Hutchinson)
  • #
    Ezio Pinza (DB 828; GEMM 162/3), recorded in 1924, offers unlachrymose singing of the lovely aria ‘Cinta di fiori’.
  • ##* 1989 : Gareth Reeves, T.S. Eliot: A Virgilian Poet , page 156 (Macmillan; ISBN 033344390X, 9780333443903)
  • #
    For instance, there is the sparely stated consolation of the poem’s concluding paragraph, or the sinewy articulation of the lines in ‘The Dry Salvages’ I distinguishing the sea’s ‘different voices’, and culminating in unlachrymose sympathy for the ‘anxious worried women’: an effect achieved by the way in which their anxiety is syntactically submerged, and thereby enhanced, in the unwinding sentence delineating time’s relentlessness.
  • ##* 1990 : Joel Flegler, Fanfare'', volume 13, issues 5–6, page 368 (''sub nomine sui )
  • #
    The off-handed elegance and freedom of Dino Borgioli’s Duke make him seem utterly charming and irresistible. His use of legato and the sweetness he can call upon are worthy of an unlachrymose Gigli.
  • # Unmournful; free from lamentation.
  • #* 1998 : Leon Wieseltier, Kaddish , page 54 (Knopf; ISBN 0375403892, 9780375403897)
  • I conclude that the kaddish, in Rashi’s day, played only its traditional role, in and out of the context of mourning. It was still a liturgical corollary to a pedagogical activity. Indeed, in Rashi’s reading, the liturgy of mourning that the kaddish accompanied was itself not construed as an expression of mourning, even if it was expressed by mourners. “Neither a lament nor a dirge”: this seems odd. In this unlachrymose interpretation of the prayer of justification, Rashi seems to have divorced language from reality. Of course these words are a lament and a dirge! Just see where they are said.