verb
- Speak to.
- usage: "He addressed the crowd outside the window"
- Give a speech to.
- usage: "The chairman addressed the board of trustees"
- Put an address on (an envelope.
- Direct a question at someone.
- synonyms: address
- Address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question.
- synonyms: address
- Greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name.
- usage: "He always addresses me with `Sir'"; "Call me Mister"; "She calls him by first name"
- Access or locate by address.
- synonyms: address
- Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression.
- usage: "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"
- Speak to someone.
- synonyms: address, accost, come up to
- Adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting.
- synonyms: address
adjective
- Of mail. ( marked with a destination)
- usage: "I throw away all mail addressed to `resident'"
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