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telling
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?l??/
- Rhymes: -?l??
Etymology 1
Verb
telling
- present participle of tell
Adjective
telling (comparative more telling, superlative most telling)
- Having force, or having a marked effect; weighty, effective.
- Revealing information; bearing significance.
- Serving to convince.
Derived terms
- tellingly
- tellingness
Etymology 2
Gerund from the verb tell, from tell +? -ing.
Noun
telling (plural tellings)
- The act of narration.
- The disclosure of information.
- (archaic) Counting, numbering.
- (chiefly in the negative) Ability to determine.
Synonyms
- (counting, numbering): enumeration; see also Thesaurus:counting
Anagrams
- gillnet
Dutch
Etymology
From tellen +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: tel?ling
Noun
telling f (plural tellingen, diminutive tellinkje n)
- counting, count
Derived terms
- jaartelling
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From telle +? -ing.
Noun
telling f or m (definite singular tellinga or tellingen, indefinite plural tellinger, definite plural tellingene)
- counting, a count (act of counting)
Derived terms
- folketelling
- nedtelling
See also
- teljing (Nynorsk)
References
- “telling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “telling” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
West Frisian
Etymology
From telle +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?l??/
Noun
telling c (plural tellingen)
- counting, count
Derived terms
- jiertelling
Further reading
- “telling”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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express
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)
- (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
- (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.
- 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.
- (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)
- A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
- A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
- 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.
- 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
- (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
- 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
- A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
- 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.
- 1873, Edward Everett Hale, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
- 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)
- (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
- (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.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 13
- (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
- (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.
- 2015, Ferris Jabr, How Humans Ended Up With Freakishly Huge Brains, Wired:
Synonyms
- outspeak, utter
Derived terms
- expressed
- expressedly
- express oneself
Related terms
- expressible
- expressibly
- expression
- expressive
- expressively
- expressly
Translations
Noun
express (plural expresses)
- (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.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.20:
- (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.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English express, from Old French expres, from Latin expressus
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k.sp??s/
- Homophone: expresse
Adjective
express (invariable)
- express, rapide
Derived terms
Noun
express m (plural express)
- express train or service
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