"express meaning" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to talk about making something clear or understandable. For example, "The author used metaphors to express meaning in a creative way."
It's the most efficient way to express meaning.
Ms. Plumb's choice of film medium, and her use of old-fashioned musical accompaniment, exaggerated acting gestures to express meaning, makeshift low-tech props and ridiculous wigs, all combine to give these works the overall look and atmosphere of early, silent, slapstick and pantomimelike films.
Mr. Wellman has never been a linear storyteller, and his interest in language has always had as much to do with exploiting the properties of its fundamental units -- letters, syllables, words -- as it has with using them to express meaning in its conventional sense.
Even nightingales, which are renowned for the complexity of their music, do not express meaning by singing.
A spokesman for the position that "words cannot fully express meaning" (yan bu jin yi) was Xun Can (ca. 212 240), who gained considerable notoriety for his claim that the classics were but the "chaff" of the sages' profound learning.
But we do have to take into account the overall context let us say "speaker's intention," tātparya it is stressed (e.g., by Annambhaṭṭa: 294 295), in some cases of ambiguity as also of figurative speech, which involves a second power of words, the power (śakti) to express meaning indirectly.
The early Wittgenstein shares with Kant the idea that the logical expressions do not express meanings in the way that non-logical expressions do (see 1921, 4.0312).
4. Such an interpretation would receive some support from the fact that for Kant, the logical expressions do not express meanings in the way that non-logical expressions express meanings or concepts (see Critique of Pure Reason, B 186; several of the Kantian categories correspond approximately to the "significations" of some paradigmatic logical expressions; see also MacFarlane 2002).
Logical expressions might thus seem not to express meanings susceptible of analysis, and if so analysis could not provide the grounds for thinking of a logical truth as true.
Such signs therefore express meanings, not thoughts, and they do so by representing meaning structures larger than can be expressed by a single word.
This illusion may be employed to express meanings, as at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, where the light from the base of the dome hides the supports, giving the impression that the canopy floats on air.
