English Dictionary

address

/əˈdɹɛs/

verb

(intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself. / (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech. / (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct. / (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.

She addresses the crowd with confidence.

意味（1）

(intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.

Let us address to tend on Hector's heels.

意味（2）

(intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.

Young Turnus to the Beauteous Maid addreſs’d.

意味（3）

(transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.

And this good knight his way with me addrest.

意味（4）

(transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.

His foe was soone addrest.

意味（5）

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

These men addressed themselves to the task.

意味（6）

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

In the Reign of King Charles the Second, a certain Worthy Divine at Whitehall, thus Address’d himself to the Auditory at the conclusion of his Sermon.

意味（7）

(transitive, archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.

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 company as a man.

意味（8）

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

though the young Heroe had addreſs’d his Prayers to him for his aſſiſtance

意味（9）

(transitive) 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.

Are not your orders to address the senate?

意味（10）

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

He addressed a letter.

意味（11）

(transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.

意味（12）

(transitive) To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.

The ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.

意味（13）

(transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to.

He stepped away from the sink, put up the toilet ring (Vi complained bitterly if he forgot to put it down when he was through, but never seemed to feel any pressing need to put it back up when she was), and addressed the John.

意味（14）

(transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.

By all means we want people to use social media, but we do not want you to use it in ways that will incite violence, said Jonathan Toy, Southwark council's head of community safety. This remains a big issue for us and without some form of censorship purely focusing on [violent videos], I'm not sure how we can address it.

意味（15）

(transitive, computing) To refer to a location in computer memory.

意味（16）

(transitive, golf, Scotland) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).