countenance, visage - the appearance conveyed by a person's face; "a pleasant countenance"; "a stern visage"

leer - a suggestive or sneering look or grin

sparkle, spark, light - brightness and animation of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye"

lamentation, mourning - the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief

laughter - the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth of scorn; "he enjoyed the laughter of the crowd"

demo, demonstration - a visual presentation showing how something works; "the lecture was accompanied by dramatic demonstrations"; "the lecturer shot off a pistol as a demonstration of the startle response"

act - a manifestation of insincerity; "he put on quite an act for her benefit"

ebullition, effusion, outburst, blowup, gush - an unrestrained expression of emotion

communicating, communication - the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow"

articulation, voice - expressing in coherent verbal form; "the articulation of my feelings"; "I gave voice to my feelings"

cold turkey - a blunt expression of views; "I told him cold turkey"

felicitation, congratulation - (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another; "I sent them my sincere congratulations on their marriage"

Beatitude - one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed); "her favorite Beatitude is `Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth'"

logion - a saying of Jesus that is regarded as authentic although it is not recorded in the Gospels

calque, loan translation - an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language

advice and consent - a legal expression in the United States Constitution that allows the Senate to constrain the President's powers of appointment and treaty-making

ambiguity - an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context

euphemism - an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive

dysphemism - an offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one; "his favorite dysphemism was to ask for axle grease when he wanted butter"

shucks - an expression of disappointment or irritation

speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication, oral communication, speech, language - (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"

tongue twister - an expression that is difficult to articulate clearly; "`rubber baby buggy bumper' is a tongue twister"

anatomical, anatomical reference - an expression that relates to anatomy

southernism - a locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States

catchword, motto, shibboleth, slogan - a favorite saying of a sect or political group

axiom, maxim - a saying that widely accepted on its own merits

epigram, quip - a witty saying

adage, byword, proverb, saw - a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, set phrase, phrase, idiom - an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

agrapha - sayings of Jesus not recorded in the canonical Gospels

sumpsimus - a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression; "he preferred his erroneous but pleasing mumpsimus to the correct sumpsimus"

sentimentalism - a sentimental expression or idea

expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"

honorific - an expression of respect; "the Japanese use many honorifics"

archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression

boilerplate - standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories

colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

idiom, parlance - a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

Americanism - an expression that is characteristic of English as spoken by Americans

Anglicism, Briticism, Britishism - an expression that is limited to English as spoken by Englishmen (especially as contrasted with American English)

choice of words, phraseology, wording, phrasing, verbiage, diction - the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton

math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement

sentential function - formal expression containing variables; becomes a sentence when variables are replaced by constants

primitive - a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

mathematical statement - a statement of a mathematical relation

exponential expression - a mathematical expression consisting of the constant e raised to some power

genetic science, genetics - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms

biological process, organic process - a process occurring in living organisms

adjunct - a construction that is part of a sentence but not essential to its meaning and can be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical

grammatical constituent, constituent - (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction

clause - (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence

complement - a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction

involution - a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction

phrase - an expression forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence but not containing a finite verb

predicator - an expression that predicates

squeeze, squeezing - the act of gripping and pressing firmly; "he gave her cheek a playful squeeze"