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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



... There was Insley, whose last three books had been flat failures, and for whom Cutt & Slashem had positively refused to print anything more; but Insley had gone into the country for the summer and nobody knew his address. Then ...
— A Black Adonis • Linn Boyd Porter
... address to his soldiers, and aroused their enthusiasm to the utmost. He had the advantage of obtaining the services, as chief pilot, of Alaminos, a veteran who had acted as pilot to Columbus on his last voyage, and to Grijalva in his late expedition. Soon after they started they met with a storm, ...
— By Right of Conquest - Or, With Cortez in Mexico • G. A. Henty
... has the most wrinkled, sallow, time-beaten face I ever saw. She is an exceeding well-bred woman, and of agreeable manners; but all her name in the world must, I think, have been acquired by her dexterity and skill in selecting parties, and by her address in rendering them easy with one another.' Ib. p. 244. She heard her say of a gentleman who had lately died:—'It's a very disagreeable thing, I think, when one has just made acquaintance with anybody and likes them, to have them die.' ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... was to carry the day, Mr. Maugham saw that there was grave danger that the final scene might appear an almost ludicrous anticlimax. To obviate this, he made Grace, at the beginning of the act, write a letter of confession, and address it to Claude; so that all through the discussion we had at the back of our mind the question "Will the letter reach his hands? Will the sword of Damocles fall?" This may seem like a leaf from the book of Sardou; but in reality it was a perfectly natural and justified expedient. ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer
... Attendance as representative of Yale at the Bodleian Tercentenary at Oxford; reception of D.C.L. degree; peculiar feature of it; banquet in Christ Church Hall; failure of my speech. Visit to the University of St. Andrews; Mr. Carnegie's Rectoral address; curious but vain attempts by audience to throw him off his guard; his skill in dealing with them; reception of LL.D. degree. My seventieth birthday, kindness of friends at Berlin and elsewhere; letters from President Roosevelt, Mr. Hay, Secretary of State, and Chancellor von Bulow. My resignation ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White


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