Word Finder - addressing

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To prepare oneself.

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To direct speech.

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To aim; to direct.

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To prepare or make ready.

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

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To direct one’s remarks (to someone).

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To clothe or array; to dress.

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• beclothe
• dight
• put on

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

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

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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.

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

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He addressed a letter.

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To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.

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• put the moves on
• romance

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

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The ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.

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To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech or discourse to.

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

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To refer to a location in computer memory.

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To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).

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A process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail

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Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage

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A mode, manner, or form of direct one's speech to an audience.

But hunger has numerous and complicated causes and can only be eliminated by addressing the chief ones.

Will you buy it, my dear? he asked, addressing Dorothy.

She took a deep breath and let it out before addressing her father in a determined voice.

Addressing the gathering, Langton referred to the laws of Edward the Confessor as "good laws," which the king ought to observe, and then mentioned the charter granted by Henry I.

Alex leaned on the porch rail, addressing Josh in a conversational tone.

He selected the administration of tobaccos, addressing himself especially to chemical researches under the guidance of Gay-Lussac, and gave striking proof of ability in two papers on the combinations of phosphorus with hydrogen and oxygen, published in Annales de Chimie et de Physique (1835 and 1837).

In 1879, addressing a congress of Catholic journalists in Rome, he exhorted them to uphold the necessity of the temporal power, and to proclaim to the world that the affairs of Italy would never prosper until it was restored; in 1887 he found it necessary to deprecate the violence with which this doctrine was advocated in certain journals.

On the 23rd of October 1903 Baron Podevils, the new premier, addressing the Bavarian diet, declared that his government would combat with all its strength any tendency to assure the future of the Empire on any lines other than the federative basis laid down in the imperial constitution.

At the same time, artists and men of letters were now addressing themselves in most cases, not to their fellow-citizens in a free city, but to kings and courtiers, or the educated class generally of the Greek world.

In 1658 the improved condition of Scotland was the subject of Cromwell's special congratulation in addressing parliament.

In the first the prophet speaks in his own name, addressing himself to the people in a lively description of a present calamity caused by a terrible plague of locusts which threatens the entire destruction of the country, and appears to be the vehicle of a final consuming judgment (the day of Yahweh).

His labours were as various as they were incessant - now guiding the councils of the league, now addressing crowded and enthusiastic meetings of his supporters in London or the large towns of England and Scotland, now invading the agricultural districts and challenging the landlords to meet him in the presence of their own farmers, to discuss the question in dispute, and now encountering the Chartists, led by Feargus O'Connor.

In addressing the electors of Midlothian in September 1885, Gladstone had suggested the severance of the Church of England from the state as a subject on which the foundation of discussion had already been laid, and he averred the existence of "a current almost throughout the civilized world, slowly setting in the direction of disestablishment."

While the prisoner defended himself with the calmest dignity and self-possession, Coke burst into the bitterest invective, brutally addressing the great courtier as if he had been a servant, in the phrase, long remembered for its insolence and its utter injustice - "Thou hast an English face, but a 'Spanish heart!"

He had been all over England and Scotland addressing vast meetings and, as a rule, carrying them with him; he had taken a leading part in a conference held by the Anti-Corn Law League in London, had led deputations to the duke of Sussex, to Sir James Graham, then home secretary, and to Lord Ripon and Mr Gladstone, the secretary and under secretary of the Board of Trade; and he was universally recognized as the chief orator of the Free Trade movement.

On the r 2th of June, addressing the Liberal League, he admitted that as a lifelong Imperialist it was with pain and grief that he could not support Mr Chamberlain's scheme, but the empire had been built upon free trade, and he only saw danger to the empire in these new proposals.

He picked up the reins and released the break, addressing her father and the twins.

A'Ran forced his attention away, certain that this ally was as true as any despite his haste in addressing nishani.

Hold the shuttle! he called before addressing her again.

His method was direct — addressing her needs with simple statements and questions.

Much deference is paid to chiefs and to persons of rank; and special terms are generally employed in addressing these.

Well, my boy, the old prince went on, addressing his son and patting Pierre on the shoulder.

Quinn stood, as if addressing a class of incoming freshmen.

Jonny motioned to her necklace, addressing the Other.

He was presently addressing enthusiastic congregations at Prato and Bologna.

The writer of the Oratorian Commentary (Theodulf of Orleans?) addressing a synod which instructed him to provide an exposition of this work on the faith, writes of it, as " here and there recited in our churches, and continually made the subject of meditation by our priests."

He was appointed chairman of a committee for church extension, and in that capacity made a tour through a large part of Scotland, addressing presbyteries and holding public meetings.

In addressing chiefs, or others to whom one wishes to be respectful, the singular number of the personal pronoun is rarely used; the dual is employed instead, - the dual of dignity or of respect.

And then, addressing a yet wider circle, He demanded of those who should follow Him a self-sacrifice like His own.

When someone says "beat around the bush" to describe not addressing an issue, they are using an idiom.

The further good news was that no one seemed to be immediately concerned with addressing Martha's present circumstances.

Anyone addressing nishani irritated him.

But it has largely outgrown this, and is addressing itself to the progressive re-interpretation of Christianity, in an essentially constructive spirit.

During the summer of 1876 he travelled through Ontario addressing the people on the subject of a commercial system looking to the protection of native industries.

He was appeased by Khalaf's speedy submission, together with the gift of a large sum of money, and further, it is said, by his subdued opponent addressing him as sultan, a title new at that time, and by which Mahmud continued to be called,, though he did not formally adopt it, or stamp it on his coins.

Idolaters, or, as he more gently terms them in addressing the emperor, "those who worship what among you are said to be gods," he subdivides into the three great world-civilizations - Chaldeans, Greeks and Egyptians.

Cato maior, or de Senectute, a dialogue placed in 150 B.C. in which Cato, addressing Scipio and Laelius, set forth the praises of old age.

He suggested addressing him as 'Usurper and Enemy of Mankind.'

Hurrah lads! he added, addressing the men with a rapid movement of his chin.

How like he is growing, Mary! he added, addressing Countess Mary.

This existing apart is the only sense in which a plurality of things need be independent in order to be real, or in order to be substances; and it is a sense in which they can all be related to each other, as I am not you, but I am addressing you.

He was less successful in addressing juries, and towards the close of his career did not take Nisi Arius work, but in the court of appeal and House of Lords and before the judicial committee of the privy council he enjoyed a very large practice, making for some time fully Li 5,000 a year.

Buckingham, notwithstanding the advice he had received from Bacon himself, was in the habit of addressing letters to him recommending the causes of suitors.

Harrison's canvass was conspicuous for the immense Whig processions and mass meetings, the numerous " stump " speeches (Harrison himself addressing meetings at Dayton, Chillicothe, Columbus and other places), and the use of campaign songs, of party insignia, and of campaign cries (such as " Tippecanoe and Tyler too "); and in the election he won by an overwhelming majority of 234 electoral votes to 60 cast for Van Buren.

The term imperator was the natural and regular designation employed by his troops in addressing such a magistrate; but it was more particularly and specially employed by them to salute him after a victory; and when he had been thus saluted he could use the title of imperator in public till the day of his triumph at Rome, after which it would lapse along with his imperium.

Thus, at the close of 1852, and in the beginning of 1853, Russia and France were both addressing opposite and irreconcilable demands to the Porte, and France was already talking of sending her fleet to the Dardanelles, while Russia was placing an army corps on active service and despatching Prince Menshikov on a special mission to Constantinople.

He seems also to have kept up his connexion with Geneva by addressing letters of counsel and comfort to the faithful there who continued to regard him with affection.

It is also employed generally as a term of respect in addressing wealthy men of leisure, landowners, &c.

His method was direct — addressing her needs with simple statements and questions.

He set out the various vicissitudes in addressing the contract.