address

Direction.; Guidance; help.obsolete

Direction.; A polite approach made to another person, especially of a romantic nature; an amorous advance.archaicin-plural

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

Direction.; A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style.

• a man of pleasing or insinuating address

Direction.; A formal approach to a sovereign or head of state, especially an official appeal or petition.

Direction.; A formal approach to a sovereign or head of state, especially an official appeal or petition.Commonwealth

Direction.; An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this.

• 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.

Direction.; 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.

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

Direction.; The location of a property.

• I went to his address but there was nobody there.

Direction.; A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory.

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

Direction.; 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

To prepare oneself.intransitiveobsolete

• Let us address to tend on Hector's heels.

To direct speech.intransitiveobsolete

• Young Turnus to the Beaubteous Maid addreſs’d.

To aim; to direct.obsoletetransitive

• And this good knight his way with me addrest.

To prepare or make ready.obsoletetransitive

• His foe was soone addrest.
• Then Turnus, from his chariot, leaping light, Addreſs’d himſelf on foot to ſingle fight.

To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.reflexivetransitive

• These men addressed themselves to the task.
• […] good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.

To direct one’s remarks (to someone).reflexive

• 1701, Thomas Brown, Laconics, or New Maxims of State and Conversation, London: Thomas Hodgson, section 76, p. 103, In the Reign of King Charles the Second, a certain Worthy Divine at Whitehall, thus Address’d himself to the Auditory at the

To clothe or array; to dress.archaictransitive

• Likewise Vincentius, and Petrus de Natalibus, and others your writers and recorders of fables could have told you that Tecla sometime addressed herself in man's apparel, and, had she not been forbidden by St Paul, would have followed him in

To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience).transitive

• He addressed some portions of his remarks to his supporters, some to his opponents.

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.transitive

• Are not your orders to address the senate?
• The representatives of the nation in parliament, and the privy council, address the king

To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.transitive

• He addressed a letter.