Noun

(en noun)

A particular way of phrasing an idea.

A colloquialism or idiom.

A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=9 citation , passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}

(mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.

(biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.

(programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.

Of a mother, the process of expressing milk.

Noun

(en-noun)

Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.

* 1763 , (Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz), History of Louisiana'' (1763 tr. of ''L'Histoire de la Louisiane , 1758) (PG), p. 39

*:I rejoined our people, and expected a reprimand for having forced the enemy without orders; though I had my excuse ready. But here I was mistaken; for I met with nothing but encomiums . —

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"I never seen their like," was Lassiter's encomium , "an' in my day I've seen a sight of horses.

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter X , passage=I am, you will agree, mature, and in my earlier days I won no little praise for my skill at hunt-the-slipper. I remember one of the hostesses whose Christmas parties I attended comparing me to a juvenile bloodhound. An extravagant encomium , of course, but that is what she said.}}

(rhetoric) A general category of oratory.

(rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.

The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.

(literature) A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.