Meaning of address | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Direction.
   obsolete
2. Guidance; help.
   obsolete
3. direction
4. Direction. Guidance; help. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller} A polite approach made to another person, especially of a romantic nature; an amorous advance. A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style
5. A player’s stance before hitting the ball.
6. A polite approach made to another person, especially of a romantic nature; an amorous advance.
   archaic, in-plural
7. Guidance; help. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
8. the person to whom a letter etc is addressed. geadresseerde المُرْسَل إلَيه адресат destinatário adresát der/die Adressat(in) adressat παραλήπτηςdestinatario adressaat گیرنده نامه؛ مخاطب vastaanottaja destinataireנמען जिसको पत्र लिखा जाए adresant címzett si alamat viðtakandi destinatario 受信人 수취인 adresatas adresāts penerima geadresseerdemottaker, adressatadresat دليك اخيسونكي destinatário destinatar адресат adresát naslovljenec primalac adressat ผู้รับ alıcı 收信人 адресат مخاطب، مکتوب الیہ) ngườ...
   etc
9. A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style.
10. management, or running of a business or organisation
11. A polite approach made to another person, especially of a romantic nature; an amorous advance
12. To speak to: addressed me in low tones.
13. A formal approach to a sovereign or head of state, especially an official appeal or petition.
14. directing, director-work
15. A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style
16. To make a formal speech to: addressed the union members at the convention.
17. A response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament.
    Commonwealth
18. A formal approach to a sovereign or head of state, especially an official appeal or petition. A response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament
19. To call (a person to whom one is speaking) by a particular name or term: Address the judge as "Your Honor."
20. An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this.
21. To direct (a spoken or written message) to the attention of: address a protest to the faculty senate.
22. A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter.
23. To mark with a destination: address a letter.
24. The location of a property.
25. To direct the efforts or attention of (oneself): address oneself to a task.
26. A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory.
27. To dispatch or consign (a ship, for example) to an agent or factor.
28. A string of characters identifying a node or range of nodes on a network (especially the Internet), such as an e-mail address, IP address or URL.
    Internet
29. Sports To adjust and aim the club at (a golf ball) in preparing for a stroke.
    Sports
30. Preparation.
    archaic
31. Preparedness for some task; resourcefulness; skill, ability.
    archaic
32. The act of getting ready; preparation.
    obsolete
33. The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging.
    Scotland

Equivalents

Examples

“[H]e was thus agreeable, and I neither insensible of his Perfections, nor displeased at his Addresses to me […].”

“a man of pleasing or insinuating address”

“Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable impatience, could contain himself no longer.”

“I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address.”

“Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.”

“The President's address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.”

“I went to his address but there was nobody there.”

“The program will crash if there is no valid data stored at that address.”

“This is one bad effect of a good Character—it invites applications from the unfortunate and there needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of Benevolence without incurring the expence.—”

“The warmth of Father Pedro's constitution had formerly drawn him into some scrapes from which it required all his address to disengage himself, and rendered him exceedingly cautious ever after.”

“At their turning-lathes, they employ their toes to guide the chisel; and, in these pedipulations, shew to Europeans a diverting degree of address.”

“But now again she makes address to speak.”

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