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expressest

expressest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of express.

Meaning of express

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
    • Words cannot express the love I feel for him.
  2. (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
    • 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 […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 13”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
  3. To translate messenger RNA into protein.
  4. To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
    • 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 November 28, Ferris Jabr, “How Humans Ended Up With Freakishly Huge Brains”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016

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Origin of expressest

From express + -est.

Questions about expressest

What is expressest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Expressest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of express.

Words near expressest in the dictionary

  1. expressedly
  2. expresser
  3. expressers
  4. expresses
  5. expresses oneself
  6. expressest
  7. expresseth
  8. expressibility
  9. expressible
  10. expressibly
  11. expressing

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