Definition of Expression

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Expression

The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.

The act of declaring or signifying; declaration; utterance; as, an expression of the public will.

Lively or vivid representation of meaning, sentiment, or feeling, etc.; significant and impressive indication, whether by language, appearance, or gesture; that manner or style which gives life and suggestive force to ideas and sentiments; as, he reads with expression; her performance on the piano has expression.

That which is expressed by a countenance, a posture, a work of art, etc.; look, as indicative of thought or feeling.

A form of words in which an idea or sentiment is conveyed; a mode of speech; a phrase; as, a common expression; an odd expression.

The representation of any quantity by its appropriate characters or signs.

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Expression Quotations

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Winston Churchill

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Winston Churchill

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mohandas Gandhi

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand

Beauty without expression is boring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
Deepak Chopra

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
Dale Carnegie

Expression Translations

expression in Afrikaans is gesig, uitdrukking
expression in Danish is udtryk
expression in Dutch is bewoording, betuiging, gezegde
expression in Finnish is ilme
expression in French is listing, mine, expression, terme
expression in Italian is espressione
expression in Norwegian is uttrykk
expression in Spanish is expresion
expression in Swedish is term, min, uttryck, fras

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