expresses

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of express.

   Her poetry expresses a deep longing for home.

   The committee expresses its concerns in the final report.

   Note

   A transitive form that almost always takes a direct object: a poem expresses longing, a nursing mother expresses milk, a committee expresses concern. Biology has its own use, where the subject is a cell and the object a protein. A cell that expresses a protein is translating messenger RNA into it, and the verb can also cover transcribing DNA into that RNA.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of express.

   The railway added three new expresses to the evening timetable.

   Both expresses arrived at the terminal within minutes of each other.

   Note

   A plural that shares its spelling with the verb form, so the sentence decides which one you have. In "two expresses left on time," it means trains; in "she expresses doubt," it is a verb. As a noun plural it can count fast trains, couriers sent on special errands, or express rifles. In the Philippines it can also count jeepneys that run along an expressway.

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