Expression and Assertion

noun

• The feelings expressed on a person's face.
  • usage: "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face"
  • synonyms: look, aspect, facial expression, face
• Expression without words.
  • usage: "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition"
  • synonyms: manifestation, reflection, reflexion
• The communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions.
  • usage: "expressions of good will"; "he helped me find verbal expression for my ideas"; "the idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours"
  • synonyms: verbal expression, verbalism
• A word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations.
  • usage: "pardon the expression"
  • synonyms: saying, locution
• The style of expressing yourself.
  • usage: "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared"
  • synonyms: formulation
• A group of symbols that make a mathematical statement.
  • synonyms: formula
• Genetics) the process of expressing a gene. (
• A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit.
  • usage: "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"
  • synonyms: construction, grammatical construction
• The act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing.
  • usage: "the expression of milk from her breast"

• (n.) The representation of any quantity by its appropriate characters or signs.
• (n.) The act of declaring or signifying; declaration; utterance; as, an expression of the public will.
• (n.) The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.
• (n.) That which is expressed by a countenance, a posture, a work of art, etc.; look, as indicative of thought or feeling.
• (n.) A form of words in which an idea or sentiment is conveyed; a mode of speech; a phrase; as, a common expression; an odd expression.
• (n.) Lively or vivid representation of meaning, sentiment or feeling, etc.; significant and impressive indication, whether by language, appearance or gesture; that manner or style which gives life and suggestive force to ideas and sentiments; as, he reads with expression; her performance on the piano has expression.

noun

• A declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary.
  • synonyms: averment, asseveration
• The act of affirming or asserting or stating something.
  • synonyms: affirmation, statement

• (n.) The act of asserting or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
• (n.) Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.

Explicit or implicit representations by an entity's management that are embodied in financial statement components and for which the auditor obtains and evaluates evidential matter when forming his or her opinion on the entity's financial statements.