exprest

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.

   Synonyms:

   outspeak, utter, articulate, common, communicate, convey, share, make known, portray, put

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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