Unwrap vs Express - What's the difference?
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(not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
(comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
* Milton
A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
* {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
, title=Death Walks in Eastrepps
, chapter=1/1 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
(obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
* Jeremy Taylor
A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
An express office.
* E. E. Hale
That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
(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) ,
(biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
(biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
(obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.20:
(obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.
* 1646 , (Sir Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , II.5:
As verbs the difference between unwrap and express
is that unwrap is to open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded while express is (senseid) to convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.As an adjective express is
(not comparable) moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.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.express
English
(wikipedia express)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl) expressus, past participle of (exprimere) (see Etymology 2, below).Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.
- Their human countenance / The express resemblance of the gods.
Synonyms
* explicit * (of a train) fast, crackAntonyms
* impliedNoun
(es)- I took the express into town.
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.}}
- "Give me my express ," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.
- the only remanent express of Christ's sacrifice on earth
- She charged him to ask at the express if anything came up from town.
- (Eikon Basilike)
Synonyms
* (of a train) fast trainAntonyms
* (of a train) local, stopperEtymology 2
From (etyl) espresser, (expresser), from frequentative form of (etyl) exprimere.Verb
(es)- 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 [...].
Synonyms
* (l), (l)Noun
(expresses)- Whereby they discoursed in silence, and were intuitively understood from the theory of their expresses .
- 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.