Address
To aim; to direct.
To prepare or make ready.
Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
To clothe or array; to dress.
To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).
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.
To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.
To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
To prepare one's self.
To direct speech.
Act of preparing one's self.
Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.
A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters.
Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.
Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady.
Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
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Address Quotations
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.
Barack Obama
I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.
Barack Obama
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
John Keats
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
Richard M. Nixon
My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.
Steven Tyler
There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.
Michael Phelps
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
Quentin Crisp
The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.
Mercy Otis Warren
Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.
Mercy Otis Warren
Address Translations
address in Afrikaans is adres, toespreek, adresseer
address in Danish is adresse
address in Dutch is adresseren
address in Finnish is osoite
address in German is Anschrift {m}, Adresse {f}
address in Italian is rivolgere la parola, indirizzo, nominativo
address in Latin is oratio, aggredior, adicio
address in Norwegian is adresse
address in Swedish is tilltala, adress, utanskrift, rikta, adressera
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