Expression vs Meaning - What's the difference?
expression | meaning | Synonyms |
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 (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.
The symbolic value of something.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
The significance of a thing.
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(lb) The objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.
(lb) Intention.
*(rfdate) (Sir Walter Raleigh):
*:It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand.
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, title= Having a (specified) intention.
Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.
*1839 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘William Wilson’:
*:I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in those meaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.
Expression is a synonym of meaning.
As nouns the difference between expression and meaning
is that expression is a particular way of phrasing an idea while meaning is the symbolic value of something.As a verb meaning is
.As an adjective meaning is
having a (specified) intention.expression
English
(wikipedia expression)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
Derived terms
* arithmetic expression * linguistic expression * logical expression * regular expression * expression pedalStatistics
* ----meaning
English
(wikipedia meaning)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mening, menyng, equivalent to .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* sense, definitionHyponyms
* propositionDerived terms
* antimeaning * meaning of life * meaningful * meaningless * meaninglessly * meaninglessnessEtymology 2
From .Verb
(head)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
