Definition of Address

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY!

Home - Quote Topics - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Author Nationalities

Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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.

Related Definitions:

Accost, Act, Address, Addressed, Addressing, Adroitness, Agent, Aim, An, And, Another, Any, Application, Apply, Array, As, Attention, Audience, Betake, By, Care, Clothe, Communication, Consign, Court, Delivery, Dexterity, Direct, Direction, Discourse, Dress, Either, Energies, Factor, Formal, He, In, Insinuating, Intrust, Lady, Letter, Lover, Make, Man, Management, Manner, Merchant, Name, Object, Occasion, Of, On, One, Or, Person, Petition, Place, Pleasing, Prepare, Preparing, Ready, Residence, Self, Ship, Skill, Skillful, Some, Speak, Speaking, Special, Speech, Spoken, Statement, Subject, Suit, Superscribe, Superscription, Thanks, The, Thing, Title, To, Transmit, Verbal, Was, Way, Whether, Woo, Writing, Written

Address Quotations

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
Michael T. Thomas

We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
John W. Snow

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.
Mary H. Jones

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
Carol Moseley Braun

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


Quotes RSS Feeds Copyright 2008 BrainyMedia.com