expression : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: expression	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for expression
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
expression n the feelings expressed on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face" Synonym(s): expression, look, aspect, facial expression, face expression without words; "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition" Synonym(s): expression, manifestation, reflection, reflexion the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions; "expressions of good will"; "he helped me find verbal expression for my ideas"; "the idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours" Synonym(s): expression, verbal expression, verbalism a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression" Synonym(s): saying, expression, locution the style of expressing yourself; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared" Synonym(s): formulation, expression a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement Synonym(s): formula, expression (genetics) the process of expressing a gene 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" Synonym(s): construction, grammatical construction, expression Antonym(s): misconstruction the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing; "the expression of milk from her breast"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Expression \Expres"sion\ ([ecr]kspr[ecr]sh"[ucr]n), n. [L. expressio: cf. F. expression.] 1. The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth. 2. The act of declaring or signifying; declaration; utterance; as, an expression of the public will. With this tone of philosophy were mingled expressions of sympathy. --Prescott. 3. Lively or vivid representation of meaning, sentiment, or feeling, etc.; significant and impressive indication, whether by language, appearance, or gesture; that manner or style which gives life and suggestive force to ideas and sentiments; as, he reads with expression; her performance on the piano has expression. The imitators of Shakespeare, fixing their attention on his wonderful power of expression, have directed their imitation to this. --M. Arnold. 4. That which is expressed by a countenance, a posture, a work of art, etc.; look, as indicative of thought or feeling. [bd]The expression of an eye.[b8]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
expression Any piece of program code in a {high-level language} which, when (if) its execution terminates, returns a value. In most programming languages, expressions consist of constants, variables, operators, functions, and {parentheses}. The operators and functions may be built-in or user defined. Languages differ on how expressions of different {types} may be combined - with some combination of explicit {casts} and implicit {coercions}. The {syntax} of expressions generally follows conventional mathematical notation, though some languages such as {Lisp} or {Forth} have their own idiosyncratic syntax. (2001-05-14)