Helen Fenton

Address: Definition and part of speech

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Address

  1. v. t. Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
  2. v. To aim; to direct.
  3. v. To prepare or make ready.
  4. v. Reflexively: To prepare one’s self; to apply one’s skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
  5. v. To clothe or array; to dress.
  6. v. To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).
  7. v. 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.
  8. v. To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.
  9. v. To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
  10. v. To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
  11. 1v. t. 1 Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
  12. 1v. 1 To aim; to direct.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.