different between individual vs express

English

Alternative forms

• individuall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin ind?vidu?lis, from Latin ind?viduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of ind?viduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + d?viduus (“divisible”), from d?vid? (“divide”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nd??v?d??u.?l/, /??nd??v?d??w?l/, /??nd??v?d???l/, /??nd??-/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nd??v?d????l/, /??nd??v?d???l/, /??nd??-/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /??nd??v?d???.?l/, /??nd??v?d???l/

Noun

individual (plural individuals)

1. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.

2. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
   • 1982, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:

     Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination […].

3. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
4. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.

Translations

Adjective

individual (comparative more individual, superlative most individual)

1. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.

2. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

3. Not divisible without losing its identity.

Synonyms

• (relating to a single person or thing): single, self-standing
• (intended for a single person or thing): personal, single

Antonyms

• (relating to a single person or thing): collective
• (intended for a single person or thing): group, joint, shared

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• individual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• individual in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "individual" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 161.

Catalan

Noun

individual (masculine and feminine plural individuals)

1. individual

Derived terms

• individualisme
• individualista
• individualitzar
• individualment

Related terms

• individu
• individualitat

Further reading

• “individual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Adjective

individual m or f (plural individuais)

1. individual

Derived terms

• individualismo
• individualista
• individualizar
• individualmente

Related terms

• individuo
• individualidade

Further reading

• “individual” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?.d??i.vi.du.?aw/

Adjective

individual m or f (plural individuais, comparable)

1. individual

Derived terms

• individualismo
• individualista
• individualmente

Further reading

• “individual” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French individuel

Adjective

individual m or n (feminine singular individual?, masculine plural individuali, feminine and neuter plural individuale)

1. individual

Declension

Related terms

• individualism
• individualist
• individualitate

Spanish

Adjective

individual (plural individuales)

1. individual
2. case-by-case
3. one-on-one (e.g., relationship or bond)
4. one-man (e.g., a one-man show)
5. personal, individualized

Derived terms

• individualismo
• individualista
• individualizar
• individualmente
• persecución individual

Related terms

• individuo
• individualidad

Noun

individual m (plural individuales)

1. place mat

Further reading

• “individual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?k?sp??s/ IPA^(key): /?k.?sp??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From French exprès, from Latin expressus, past participle of exprimere (see Etymology 2, below).

Adjective

express (comparative more express, superlative most express)

1. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
2. (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.

   I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.

   This book cannot be copied without the express permission of the publisher.

3. Truly depicted; exactly resembling.

   In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.
4. (postpositive, retail) Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.

   The Pizza Hut inside Target isn't a full one: it's a Pizza Hut Express.

   Some Wal-Mart stores will include a McDonald's Express.

   The mall's selection of cell phone carriers includes a full AT&T store and a T-Mobile express.

Synonyms

• (of a train): fast, crack
• (directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied): explicit, plain; see also Thesaurus:explicit

Antonyms

• (directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied): implied

Translations

Noun

express (plural expresses)

1. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
2. A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
3. An express rifle.
   • 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines

     "Give me my express," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.

4. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
   • a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation

     the only remanent express of Christ's sacrifice on earth

5. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
6. An express office.
   • 1873, Edward Everett Hale, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

     She charged him […] to ask at the express if anything came up from town.

7. That which is sent by an express messenger or message.

Synonyms

• (of a train): fast train

Antonyms

• (of a train): local, stopper

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French espresser, expresser, from frequentative form of Latin exprimere.

Verb

express (third-person singular simple present expresses, present participle expressing, simple past and past participle expressed)

2. (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.

3. (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 13

     The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl [...].

   • 2018, Kelsey Munroe, The Guardian, 15 March:

     They don’t have teats, so the mothers express their milk onto their bellies for their young to feed.

4. (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
5. (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
   • 2015, Ferris Jabr, How Humans Ended Up With Freakishly Huge Brains, Wired:

     When a cell “expresses” a gene, it translates the DNA first into a signature messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence and subsequently into a chain of amino acids that forms a protein.

Synonyms

• outspeak, utter

Derived terms

• expressed
• expressedly
• express oneself

Related terms

• expressible
• expressibly
• expression
• expressive
• expressively
• expressly

Translations

Noun

express (plural expresses)

1. (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.20:

     Whereby they discoursed in silence, and were intuitively understood from the theory of their expresses.

2. (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:

     This Gentleman [...] caused a man to go down no less than a hundred fathom, with express to take notice whether it were hard or soft in the place where it groweth.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English express, from Old French expres, from Latin expressus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.sp??s/
• Homophone: expresse

Adjective

express (invariable)

1. express, rapide

Derived terms

Noun

express m (plural express)

1. express train or service