Expression and Mode

expression

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

mode

How something is done or how it happens.
- usage: "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"
- synonyms: manner, style, way, fashion
A particular functioning condition or arrangement.
- usage: "switched from keyboard to voice mode"
A classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility.
- synonyms: modality
Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker.
- synonyms: mood, modality
Any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave.
- synonyms: musical mode
The most frequent value of a random variable.
- synonyms: modal value

(n.) Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
(n.) Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.
(n.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.
(n.) Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
(n.) The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.
(n.) Same as Mood.
(n.) Variety; gradation; degree.
(n.) A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

mode is the most frequently occurring variate. (See variate).