express-v; 3 Senses

Sense Number 1: convey, show, state in some form

Commentary: Includes: EXPRESS EMOTION, EXPRESS FEELINGS, EXPRESS JOY, EXPRESS MIRTH

Examples:
Dogs express happiness through wagging their tails.
I expressed my opinion about the new housing project at last night's meeting.
The children could only express the answer in Fahrenheit, not in Centigrade.
Picasso's Guernica vividly expresses the horrors of war.

Mappings:
VerbNet: reflexive_appearance-48.1.2
FrameNet: Encoding,Expressing_publicly
PropBank: express.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
express_joy 1
express_mirth 1
express_feelings 1
express_emotion 1

Sense Number 2: press out physically

Examples:
Italians express coffee rather than filter it.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6

Sense Number 3: to mail or post something via a rapid method

Examples:
Can you express these packages overnight to corporate headquarters?

Mappings:
VerbNet: send-11.1-1
FrameNet: Sending
PropBank: express.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 7