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Address   /ˈædrˌɛs/  /ədrˈɛs/   Listen
Address

noun
1.
(computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored.  Synonyms: computer address, reference.
2.
The place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with.
3.
The act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience.  Synonym: speech.
4.
The manner of speaking to another individual.
5.
A sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described.
6.
Written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location.  Synonyms: destination, name and address.
7.
The stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball.
8.
Social skill.  Synonym: savoir-faire.
verb
(past & past part. addressed; pres. part. addressing)
1.
Speak to.  Synonym: turn to.
2.
Give a speech to.  Synonym: speak.
3.
Put an address on (an envelope).  Synonym: direct.
4.
Direct a question at someone.
5.
Address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question.
6.
Greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name.  Synonym: call.  "Call me Mister" , "She calls him by first name"
7.
Access or locate by address.
8.
Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression.  Synonyms: cover, deal, handle, plow, treat.  "The course covered all of Western Civilization" , "The new book treats the history of China"
9.
Speak to someone.  Synonyms: accost, come up to.
10.
Adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting.



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"Address" Quotes from Famous Books



... a passage in an address given many years ago by Professor Huxley to the South London Working Men's College which struck me very much at the time, and which puts this in language more forcible than any ...
— The Pleasures of Life • Sir John Lubbock
... three times a week, and on the other three days you would have no difficulty in obtaining similar work among artists of my own acquaintance. Here is my card and address." ...
— A Girl of the Commune • George Alfred Henty
... thing happened to John Barclay that evening, and this time it was what he saw, not what he failed to see, that puzzled him. For just as he sealed the letter to his friend, and thumped his lean fist on it to blot the address on the envelope and press the mucilage down, he looked around suddenly, though he never knew why, and there, just outside the rim of light from his lampshade, trembled the image of Ellen Culpepper with her red and black checked flannel dress at her shoe tops and ...
— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White
... dau. of Sir Patrick Home or Hume, afterwards Earl of Marchmont, was married to George Baillie of Jerviswoode. In her childhood she showed remarkable courage and address in the services she rendered to her father and his friend, Robert Baillie of Jerviswoode, the eminent Scottish patriot, when under persecution. She left many pieces both prose and verse in MS., some of which were pub. The best known is the beautiful song, Were na my ...
— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin
... of the testimony the defendant's counsel proceeded to address the jury, and stated that he desired to present for consideration three propositions, two of ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage


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