address | |
1. n. Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed. | |
2. n. Act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech. | |
3. n. Manner of speaking to another; delivery. | |
a man of pleasing or insinuating address | |
4. n. Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness. | |
5. n. (obsolete) Act of preparing oneself. | |
6. n. A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number. | |
the President's address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. | |
7. n. (by extension) The property itself. | |
I went to his address but there was nobody there | |
8. n. (computing) A location in computer memory. | |
The program will crash if there is no valid data stored at that address. | |
9. n. (Internet) An Internet address; URL. | |
10. n. An email address | |
11. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself. | |
12. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech. | |
13. v. (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct. | |
14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready. | |
15. v. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake. | |
16. v. (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone). | |
17. v. (transitive, archaic) To clothe or array; to dress. | |
18. v. To direct, as words, to (anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. to (any audience). | |
He addressed some portions of his remarks to his supporters, some to his opponents. | |
19. v. To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost. | |
20. v. To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit. | |
He addressed a letter. | |
21. v. To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo. | |
22. v. To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor. | |
The ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. | |
23. v. To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech or discourse to. | |
24. v. (transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it. | |
25. v. (intransitive, computing) To refer a location in computer memory. | |
26. v. (golf, transitive) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee). | |