A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.

“I took the express into town.”

A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.

An express rifle.

Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.

Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.

“I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.”

Truly depicted; exactly resembling.

“In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.”