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"text": "I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.",
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"text": "This book cannot be copied without the express permission of the publisher.",
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"ref": "1949 November and December, “Return to Monthly Publication”, in Railway Magazine, page 351",
"text": "Beginning with the next issue, which will be the January, 1950, issue, this magazine will be published on the first of every month. This step has been taken at the express wish of readers despite the present paper and production difficulties.",
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"word": "特別"
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"text": "In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.",
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"ref": "1634, John Milton, edited by Homer Sprague, The Mask of Comus, New York: J. W. Schermerhorn & Co., published 1876, page 253",
"text": "Soon as the potion works, their human countenance, / The express resemblance of the gods, is changed / Into some brutish form, of wolf, or bear, / Or ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, / All other parts remaining as they were[…]",
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"text": "Pizza Hut Express",
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"text": "McDonald's Express",
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"(postpositive, retail) Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type."
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"ref": "1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps",
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"ref": "2023 November 1, Philip Haigh, “TPE must choose the right route to a brighter future”, in RAIL, number 995, page 56",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "表達"
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"roman": "biǎodá",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "väljendama"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"roman": "gamoxaṭavs",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "გამოხატავს"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "ausdrücken"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "äußern"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "tjá"
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{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "näyttää"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "esprimere"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "dichiarare"
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "pyohyeonhada",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "표현하다"
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{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "izteikt"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "izsacīt"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "izpaust"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "izrazuva",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"word": "изразува"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "izrazi",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"tags": [
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"word": "изрази"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "whaiere"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "uttrykke"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "exprimir"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wyrażać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wyrazić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "expressar"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "exprima"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vyražátʹ",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "выража́ть"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "výrazitʹ",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vyskázyvatʹ",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
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],
"word": "выска́зывать"
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"code": "ru",
"english": "express in words",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "výskazatʹ",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"tags": [
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"word": "вы́сказать"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"word": "изражавати"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"word": "izraziti"
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
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{
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "expresar"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "uttrycka"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vyražáty",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "виража́ти"
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"code": "uk",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"code": "uk",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"sense": "to convey meaning",
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "biểu hiện"
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "mynegi"
},
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"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "to convey meaning",
"word": "útdrukke"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to squeeze out",
"word": "puristaa"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to squeeze out",
"word": "whakatē"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izstiskvam",
"sense": "to excrete or cause to excrete",
"word": "изстисквам"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to excrete or cause to excrete",
"word": "erittää"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to excrete or cause to excrete",
"word": "exprimer"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to excrete or cause to excrete",
"word": "espremer"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to excrete or cause to excrete",
"word": "kinyom"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to excrete or cause to excrete",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to excrete or cause to excrete",
"word": "extrair"
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"word": "exprimir"
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"sense": "to excrete or cause to excrete",
"word": "fé tchitchî"
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{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "to excrete or cause to excrete",
"word": "fé brotchî foû"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to translate messenger RNA into protein",
"word": "expresszál"
}
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"ref": "1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5",
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