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Expression vs Whoo - What's the difference?

expression | whoo |

As a noun expression

is a particular way of phrasing an idea.

As an interjection whoo is

an expression of delight.

As a verb whoo is

to make a whoo sound, of delight, whistling, or of an owl etc.

expression

English

(wikipedia expression)

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.

    • Derived terms

    * arithmetic expression * linguistic expression * logical expression * regular expression * expression pedal

    Related terms

    * express * expressive * expressionless * expressionism * expressible

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    whoo

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • An expression of delight.
  • The wailing cry of a ghost.
  • * 1949 , Robertson Davies, The table talk of Samuel Marchbanks
    • "You are mistaken; I am a ghost; whoo !" said I, choking back my rage.
  • * 1996 , R A Noonan, Wild ghost chase
    • Then he held up his hands and let out a weak ghost-howl. "Whoo ?" he moaned, in a tiny voice.
  • The cry of an owl

    • Synonyms

    * (expression of delight) wahoo, whoopee, yay, yippee * (cry of an owl) tuwhit tuwhoo

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a whoo sound, of delight, whistling, or of an owl etc.
  • * 1891 , (Thomas Hardy), (w, Tess of the d'Urbervilles) , Part 6:
  • *:"Upon my honour!" cried he, "there was never before such a beautiful thing in Nature or Art as you look, 'Cousin' Tess ('Cousin' had a faint ring of mockery). I have been watching you from over the wall—sitting like Im-patience on a monument, and pouting up that pretty red mouth to whistling shape, and whooing' and ' whooing , and privately swearing, and never being able to produce a note. Why, you are quite cross because you can't do it."