different between expression vs preverbal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French expression, from Late Latin expressi?, expressi?nem (“a pressing out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sp???.?n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Hyphenation: ex?pres?sion

Noun

expression (countable and uncountable, plural expressions)

1. The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
2. A particular way of phrasing an idea.
3. A colloquialism or idiom.

4. A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:expression.

5. (mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
6. (biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
7. (programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
8. A specific blend of whisky.
9. (biology) The act of pressing or squeezing out.

   expression from a gland

   the expression of milk from the mammaries

10. (music) The tone of voice or sound in music.

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Derived terms

Related terms

• expression pedal

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French expression, borrowed from Latin expressi?, expressi?nem (“a pressing out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.sp??.sj??/

Noun

expression f (plural expressions)

1. expression

Derived terms

Related terms

• exprimer

Further reading

• “expression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin expressi?, expressi?nem (“a pressing out”).

Noun

expression (plural expressiones)

1. expression

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin expressi?, expressi?nem (“a pressing out”).

Noun

expression f (plural expressions)

1. (Jersey) expression

English

Etymology

pre- +? verbal

Adjective

preverbal (not comparable)

1. (child development) At an early stage of development in which one is not yet able to communicate by means of words.
   • 1989, Anne Fernald, "Intonation and Communicative Intent in Mothers' Speech to Infants: Is the Melody the Message?," Child Development, Vol. 60, No. 6, p. 1497,

     The expressive power of intonation in communication with preverbal infants was a topic of considerable interest in the early literature on language acquisition.

2. (linguistics, of a part of speech) Occurring before the verb in a sentence or expression.
   • 1974, J. A. Dunn, "Preverbal Position in Coast Tsimshian," International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 40, no. 1, p. 10,

     I will attempt to document some recent syntactic (word order) changes involving preverbal noun phrases in the Coast Tsimshian language.

Translations

Noun

preverbal (plural preverbals)

1. (grammar) A preverb.

Spanish

Adjective

preverbal (plural preverbales)

1. preverbal