means of expression
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmeansandexpression
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means
noun
uk/miːnz/us/miːnz/
a method or way of ...
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expression
noun
uk/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/us/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/
the act of saying what you think or showing how you feel using words ...
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(Definition ofmeansandexpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmeans of expression
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Taxidermy was his craft and his chosenmeansofexpression.
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As psychical realities in the individual findmeansofexpressionin individual action, so psychical realities in the group find means of expression in corporate action.
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Each culture has its ownmeansofexpression, its own identifiable world view.
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Themeansofexpressiontransform what is expressed, in the process of conveying it.
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This awareness might have had two possiblemeansofexpressionin the orthography.
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Again, it is the characteristicmeansofexpression, not the full range of possibilities in the language, that is crucial.
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However, the composers quickly realised that this newmeansofexpressioninvolved many aesthetic and formal problems.
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In the tautology of opera, her happiness, or elation, is both affirmed and confirmed by hermeansofexpression.
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Creators have more than just a virtual symphony that allows a new virtuosity: they also have newmeansofexpression.
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There is no statistical method of assessing the consequences of this penetration of new ideas andmeansofexpression.
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In politics, themeansofexpressionhas been whittled down.
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The cultural industries are vital as ameansofexpression.
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My task is to help an actor maintain contact with the appropriate sensations and develop his or hermeansofexpression.
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As figure 8 shows, verbalmeansofexpressionare preferred in complex gerunds even when the nominal alternative is perfectly viable.
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If something was not exactly good, a politemeansofexpressionmay have been something like 'rather good than bad' and, subsequently, 'rather good'.
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It creates a major motivation for grammaticalization and results in a richness ofmeansofexpressionin the domains to which it applies.
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Movement is the child's first language andmeansofexpressionand it learns stillness as the most advanced form of movement.
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In its clarity of texture, material andmeansofexpression, it embodies the general tendencies of the set as a whole.
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The expressive dispositions and institutedmeansofexpressionthat constitute the electric discourse were constantly pursuing and achieving effective resonances in other discursive fields.
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Now the problem became that of being able to afford sufficient time for actors to work together and develop themeansofexpressionso recently rediscovered.
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It provided themeansofexpressionof a common purpose and a common vision.
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The idea that it is an indispensablemeansofexpressionis nonsense.
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The onlymeansofexpressionopen to many such groups is that of peaceful protest.
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They are finding ameansofexpression, and do not imagine that it is temporary.
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Some singers use vibrato as ameansofexpression.
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