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  • noun An expression.

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  • verb Present participle of express.
  • adjective biochemistry That translates or transcribes nucleic acid

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Examples

  • There has never been any question in our controversy of a capuchin wasting his time in quenching the darts of the flesh, though, by the way, in the whole sum of time wasted, the term expressing the time lost in satisfying the appetites of the flesh would probably be found to be decidedly the greater of the two. '

    Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot John Morley 1880

  • "Mosque" has become a term expressing far more the injustice of human existence than a House of God.

    Grant Brooke, M.Div.: Hindsight: Burying the Ghost of Ground Zero M.Div. Grant Brooke 2010

  • From Jefferies 'strategy desk comes an early morning report with a title expressing the secret fears of many: "Wait' til next year, again? "

    Black Dogs Don't Play Dead 2009

  • From this helpless and oppressed condition he extricates himself by doing something which we call expressing himself.

    Collingwood's Aesthetics Kemp, Gary 2009

  • Following the aftermath of the October Revolution of 1917, Constructivism emerged from within the Russian avant-garde both as an artistic practice and as a term expressing a belief in the birth of a new relationship between the artist and society.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Michael Caddell 2008

  • Law 2.0 refers transparently to Web 2.0, a term expressing the far-from-universal sentiment that a second generation of Internet-based communities and services, all designed to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users, has transformed the social meaning and impact of the World Wide Web.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • Law 2.0 refers transparently to Web 2.0, a term expressing the far-from-universal sentiment that a second generation of Internet-based communities and services, all designed to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users, has transformed the social meaning and impact of the World Wide Web.

    Law 2.0 2007

  • A term expressing the view that immigrants to the United States have been fused or melted into a single people.

    melting pot 2002

  • This is the "colour-line" of the race, and the term "Indio" is still a term expressing something of contempt, notwithstanding the fact that some of the prominent, and even intellectual, men of Mexico's history have been drawn from the Mestizo class, and -- in the case of Juarez -- from pure aboriginal stock.

    Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

  • If I say simply, “The Sorrows, ” there will be a chance of mistaking the term; it might be understood of individual sorrow, —separate cases of sorrow, —whereas I want a term expressing the mighty abstractions that incarnate themselves in all individual sufferings of man’s heart; and I wish to have these abstractions presented as impersonations, that is, as clothed with human attributes of life, and with functions pointing to flesh.

    Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow 1909

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