Expression
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'The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things' --Through the Looking-Glass |
Illustration: a close-up of a mouth in the film The Big Swallow (1901)
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Expression may refer to:
- To convey meaning.
- Words cannot express the love I feel for him.
- To excrete or cause to excrete, especially said of milk.
Symbolic expression
- Expression (language), a thought communicated by language
- Expression marks, (music) notating the musical dynamics
- Fixed expression
Bodily expression
- The expression of milk
- Emotional expression, verbal and non-verbal behaviour that communicates emotion
- Facial expression, a movement of the face that conveys emotional state
- Gene expression, the process by which information from a gene is used in biochemistry
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Etymology
Etymology From ex- (“out of, from”) + premō (“press”).
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Linguistics
- Fixed expression, a form of words with a specific meaning
- Idiom, a type of fixed expression
- Metaphorical expression, a particular word, phrase, or form of words that has a different meaning than its literal form
- Expression (sign language), the expressions and postures of the face and body that contribute to the formation of words when signing
Symbolic expression
- Expression (architecture), implies a clear and authentic displaying of the character or personality of an individual person
- Expression (mathematics), a finite combination of symbols that are well-formed according to applicable rules
- Expression (computer science), an instruction to execute something that will return a value
- Regular expression, a means of matching strings of text in computing
- Expression marks, in music, notating the musical dynamics
Bodily expression
- Expression of breast milk
- Emotional expression, verbal and non-verbal behaviour that communicates emotion
- Facial expression, a movement of the face that conveys emotional state
- Gene expression, the process by which information from a gene is used in biochemistry
Product names
- Expression (album), a 1967 album by John Coltrane
- Expressions (Chick Corea album), a 1993 album by Chick Corea
- Expressions (Sarah Geronimo album), 2013
- Expressions, an album by Jon Secada
- "Expression" (song), a song by Salt-n-Pepa
- Expressions, the annual magazine of Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
- Microsoft Expression Studio, a digital media and graphic design suite
- Ex'pression College for Digital Arts, a college in Emeryville, California for the entertainment industry
- The Expression (album)
Other
- Musical expression
- Method of obtaining (vegetable) Oil by pressure extraction, such as Expeller pressing
- Self-expression values
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