different between expression vs visage

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.

Hyponyms

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

From Middle English visage, from Anglo-Norman and from Old French visage, from vis, from Vulgar Latin as if *vis?ticum, from Latin visus (“a look, vision”), from vid?re (“to see”); see vision.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z?d?/

Noun

visage (plural visages)

1. Countenance; appearance; one's face.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:countenance

Related terms

• visaged
• envisage
• evidence
• vision
• visionary
• visual
• visualization
• visualize

Translations

Further reading

• visage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• visage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Veigas

French

Etymology

From Old French visage, from vis (from Latin visus) + -age, or possibly a Vulgar Latin *vis?ticum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.za?/

Noun

visage m (plural visages)

1. face (anatomy)

Synonyms

• (vulgar) tronche
• (slang) bouille
• (vulgar) gueule
• face (only used in certain constructions, or in Canada)
• figure

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French visage.

Noun

visage (plural visages)

1. (anatomy) face

Synonyms

• face

Descendants

• English: visage

Old French

Etymology

vis +? -age, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *vis?ticum, from Latin visus. Compare Old Occitan vizatge.

Noun

visage m (oblique plural visages, nominative singular visages, nominative plural visage)

1. (anatomy) face

Synonyms

• vis
• face
• volt

Descendants

• Middle English: visage
  • English: visage
• French: visage