Saying vs Expression - What's the difference?
saying | expression |
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.
Expression is a synonym of saying.
As nouns the difference between saying and expression
is that saying is a proverb or maxim; something often said while expression is a particular way of phrasing an idea.As a verb saying
is present participle of lang=en.saying
English
(wikipedia saying)Verb
(head)Synonyms
* maxim, proverb, saw, expression * See alsoExternal links
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*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.}}