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  2. Expression - Wikipedia

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    Fixed expression, a form of words with a specific meaning; Idiom, a type of fixed expression; Metaphorical expression, a particular word, phrase, or form of words that has a different meaning than its literal form; Expression (sign language), the expressions and postures of the face and body that contribute to the formation of words when signing

  3. Gene expression - Wikipedia

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    A housekeeping gene is a gene that is required to maintain basic cellular function and so is typically expressed in all cell types of an organism. Examples include actin, GAPDH and ubiquitin. Some housekeeping genes are transcribed at a relatively constant rate and these genes can be used as a reference point in experiments to measure the ...

  4. Definition - Wikipedia

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    The word or group of words that is to be defined is called the definiendum, and the word, group of words, or action that defines it is called the definiens. [6] For example, in the definition "An elephant is a large gray animal native to Asia and Africa", the word "elephant" is the definiendum, and everything after the word "is" is the ...

  5. Idiom - Wikipedia

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    Another category of idioms is a word having several meanings, sometimes simultaneously, sometimes discerned from the context of its usage. This is seen in the (mostly uninflected) English language in polysemes , the common use of the same word for an activity, for those engaged in it, for the product used, for the place or time of an activity ...

  6. Emotional expression - Wikipedia

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    Individuals have some conscious control of their emotional expressions; [1] however, they need not have conscious awareness of their emotional or affective state in order to express emotion. Researchers in psychology have proposed many different and often competing theoretical models to explain emotions and emotional expression, going as far ...

  7. Gene - Wikipedia

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    Essential genes include housekeeping genes (critical for basic cell functions) [112] as well as genes that are expressed at different times in the organisms development or life cycle. [113] Housekeeping genes are used as experimental controls when analysing gene expression , since they are constitutively expressed at a relatively constant level.

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  9. Literal translation - Wikipedia

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    Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is the translation of a text done by translating each word separately without analysing how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence. [1] In translation theory, another term for literal translation is metaphrase (as opposed to paraphrase for an analogous translation).