Special delivery

Definition

express /Çk'spres/ v ၁။ ေဖာ္ျပသည္။ သိျမင္ေစသည္။ express one's doubts/ reservations/ fears about sth ❍ express one's emotions/ views/ interest/ surprise ❍ Words cannot express my gratitude to all those who have supported me. ❍ I still can't express how I feel. ၂။ ~ oneself ေျပာဆို ေရးသားေဖာ္ျပသည္။ အမူအရာျဖင့္ျပသည္။ He is still unable to express himself in English. ❍ Dramatic gestures were how she often chose to express herself. ၃။ ~ sth as/ in sth ( esp mathematics ) (esp passive) သေကၤတႏွင့္ ေဖာ္ျပသည္။ The prices are expressed in local currency. ❍ The figures are expressed as percentages. adj ၁။ ( esp Brit ) အျမန္။ an express delivery service ❍ an express letter ❍ an express bus/ coach. ၂။ တိက်ျပတ္သား ေသာ။ It was his express wish that you should have his gold watch after he died. adv ( esp Brit ) အျမန္ေခ်ာပို႔စနစ္ျဖင့္။ The parcel was sent express. n ၁။ (also express train ) [C] အျမန္ရထား။ the 0800 express to Edinburgh ❍ the Baltimore express. ၂။ (က) (also esp US special delivery ) [U] အျမန္ပို႔စနစ္။ အျမန္ေခ်ာ။ send goods by express. (ခ) [C] ( US ) အျမန္ကုန္ပို႔ ကုမၸဏီ။ ❏ expressly adv ၁။ အေသအခ်ာ၊ အတိအက်။ You were expressly told not to touch my papers. ၂။ အထူးတလည္ ရည္ရြယ္၍။ a dictionary expressly written for foreign students of English.

Examples

1. Thoughts that he could not clearly express in words
2. His teachers expressed concern about his progress at school.
3. The government has reportedly expressed an interest in the scheme.
4. I would like to express my thanks to my parents for their support.
5. The opinions expressed in this book are purely my own.
6. A poem expressing grief at the death of a friend
7. Her eyes expressed total shock.
8. The chairperson expressed agreement with a slight nod.
9. Dalton’s Law can be expressed mathematically.
10. [express something as something] : A ratio can be expressed as a percentage.
11. I’ll express those documents to you.