expression
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(noun) the expression on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face" |
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Synonyms: aspect, face, facial expression, look |
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Related Words: countenance, leer, light, spark, sparkle, visage |
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(noun) expression without words; "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition" |
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Synonyms: manifestation, reflection, reflexion |
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Related Words: act, demo, demonstration, effusion, gush, laughter, outburst |
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(noun) the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions; "expressions of good will"; "he helped me find expression for my ideas" |
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Related Words: articulation, communicating, communication, voice |
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(noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner" |
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Synonyms: construction |
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Related Words: clause, complement, constituent, grammatical constituent, misconstruction, phrase, predicator |
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(noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement |
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Synonyms: formula |
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Related Words: exponential expression, mathematical statement, sentential function |
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(noun) the style of expressing yourself; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared" |
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Synonyms: formulation |
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Related Words: Americanism, Anglicism, Briticism, Britishism, archaicism, archaism, boilerplate, choice of words, colloquialism, diction, expressive style, honorific, idiom, parlance, phraseology, phrasing, style, verbiage, wording |
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(noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression" |
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Synonyms: locution, saying |
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Related Words: Beatitude, adage, agrapha, ambiguity, anatomical, anatomical reference, axiom, byword, calque, catchword, epigram, euphemism, idiom, idiomatic expression, language, loan translation, maxim, motto, oral communication, phrasal idiom, phrase, proverb, quip, saw, set phrase, shibboleth, shucks, slogan, southernism, speech, spoken language, tongue twister |
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