express vs knockdown

express

adj
  • Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type. 

  • Truly depicted; exactly resembling. 

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

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

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

noun
  • An express office. 

  • That which is sent by an express messenger or message. 

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

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

  • An express rifle. 

  • A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier. 

verb
  • To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA. 

  • To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit. 

  • To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk). 

  • To translate messenger RNA into protein. 

knockdown

adj
  • reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer 

  • To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening. 

  • powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down 

  • Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal. 

noun
  • The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface. 

  • An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. 

  • A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room. 

  • A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly. 

  • a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet. 

  • A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced. 

  • The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene. 

  • An overwhelming blow. 

verb
  • To employ the knockdown technique 

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