Expression
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'The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things' [...] --Through the Looking-Glass "For I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all."--Igor Stravinsky, An Autobiography by Igor Stravinsky
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Illustration: a close-up of a mouth in the film The Big Swallow (1901)
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Expression may refer to:
- To convey meaning.
- Words cannot express the love I feel for him.
- To excrete or cause to excrete, especially said of milk.
Symbolic expression
- Expression (language), a thought communicated by language
- Expression marks, (music) notating the musical dynamics
- Fixed expression
Bodily expression
- The expression of milk
- Emotional expression, verbal and non-verbal behaviour that communicates emotion
- Facial expression, a movement of the face that conveys emotional state
- Gene expression, the process by which information from a gene is used in biochemistry
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Etymology
Etymology From ex- (“out of, from”) + premō (“press”).
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