express
Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
Other meanings
Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
“I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.”
Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
“In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.”
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "expressus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “express” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.