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Meaning of address in English

address
noun [ C ]
uk/əˈdres/ us/ˈæd.res/

address noun [C] (HOME DETAILS)

A1
the number of the house, name of the road, and name of the town where a person lives or works, and where letters can be sent:
her business/home address
a change of address
a place where someone lives:
Police searched an address in North London in connection with a drugs arrest.

address noun [C] (COMPUTERS)

A1
a series of letters and symbols that tell you where to find something on the internet or show where an email is sent to:
What's your email address?
Do you have their Web address?
computing specialized
the place where a piece of information is stored in a computer's memory

address noun [C] (SPEECH)

She gave an address to the Royal Academy.
address
verb [ T ]
uk/əˈdres/ us/əˈdres/

address verb [T] (SPEAK TO)

C2 formal
to speak or write to someone:
He addressed a few introductory remarks to the audience.
You may address me as Ms Harris.
He likes to be addressed as "Sir" or "Mr Partridge".

address verb [T] (DEAL WITH)

C1
to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem:
The issue of funding has yet to be addressed.

address verb [T] (WRITE DETAILS)

C2
to write a name or address on an envelope or parcel:
address something to someone Put the cheque in an envelope and address it to John Smith.
be addressed to So why did you open a letter that was addressed to me?
The parcel was wrongly addressed.

address verb [T] (SPORT)

to stand in position before hitting a golf ball or shooting at a target:
Try to make sure that you are well balanced when you address the ball.
The archers have to straddle the line when they address the target.
(Definition of address from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

address | American Dictionary

address
noun [ C ]
us/ˈæd·res, əˈdres/

address noun [C] (PLACE)

the specific place where a person, business, or organization can be found and where mail can be received:
What is your street address now?
I need your home and your business address.
An address is also a group of letters or numbers and an @ symbol used to send electronic mail to someone:
My e-mail address is [email protected].

address noun [C] (SPEAK TO)

The graduation address was very dull.
address
verb [ T ]
us/əˈdres/

address verb [T] (SPEAK TO)

to speak or write to someone, or to direct information to someone:
The First Lady addressed the meeting briefly.
He was generally addressed as “Captain.”

address verb [T] (DEAL WITH)

to give attention to or to deal with a matter or problem:
We’ll address that question at the next meeting.

address verb [T] (PLACE)

to write or print the specific place where a person, business, or organization can be found on something to be sent there:
I addressed envelopes all morning.
(Definition of address from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

address | Business English

address
noun [ C ]
uk/əˈdres/ us/ˈædres/
a building number, name of the road, etc. where you live, where an organization has an office, or where mail is sent:
Please send your application to the address below.
What is your full address?
a business/home address
Taxpayers who have moved should make certain they file a change of address with the U.S. Postal Service.
(also email address)
the words and symbols that you type in order to send an email to a particular person. It usually consists of a person's name, an @ sign, the name of a company or school, and sometimes an abbreviation for a country:
I sent the email to the wrong address.
What's your email address?
INTERNET (also web address)
the words and symbols that you type to look at a particular website:
How much web information could be captured: just the overall address or a list of each document viewed?
IT
COMMUNICATIONS
in an address to sb/sth 'I can only see continued growth ahead of us,' the Chairman said in an address to analysts and money managers.
address
verb [ T ]
uk/əˈdres/ us
[ usually passive ]
to write an address on an envelope or package so it can be sent to the person who has that address:
be addressed to sb/sth Make sure that your package is addressed to the correct department.
a stamped addressed envelope
He addressed a group of forty industrialists and politicians.
to speak to someone in a particular way or using a particular name:
address sb as sth She addressed him as Mr Clifford.
to deal with a particular problem or need:
It is time to address the budget deficit.
address a problem/issue How does the organization address the problems identified?
address a need He was impressed with the business plan because it addressed a real need.
(Definition of address from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of address

address
Very few of these studies actually address the distinction between planning and control.
The reports include an executive summary that facilitates a quick and comprehensive understanding of the key points addressed by the report.
Philosophical arguments address one of the most fundamental yet elusive questions facing behavioral scientists, namely, what constitutes a disorder?
It was first returned because it had been drafted by counsel; government could only be addressed by principals, not their agents.
It will be important for future work to continue to address these issues by attempting to differentiate lexical from phonological representations.
The question of how these gradient patterns are grammatically represented and integrated with the rest of the phonological system is not addressed.
The chapter on data processing addresses these issues with a detailed discussion of the issues surrounding spot quantitation and data normalization.
This allows students to address important issues surrounding relations between theory and experience.
This paper addresses the technical challenges of implementing a producibility analysis tool.
In particular, we must address the situation where we recursively call a tabled subgoal before we have fully tabled all its answers.
The biological basis and pathophysiology of negative symptoms are also addressed.
The first point to address, then, is whether the findings of variationist sociolinguistics are indeed compatible with such a model.
Every centre was encouraged to strengthen its social science research, to address particular themes and overall staff numbers.
These themes were addressed in a limited number of model systems.
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Collocations with address

address

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address register
This address space is used to address registers and memory on the option.
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Wikipedia
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commencement address
Heath (1980) cited an 1829 handbook and an 1846 commencement address that criticize the use of the nominative in this environment.
correct address
It was clearly a question of the letter not going to the correct address and not being forwarded that led to the trouble.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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Translations of address

in Chinese (Traditional)
家庭詳細資料, 地址, 住址…
in Chinese (Simplified)
家庭详细资料, 地址, 住址…
in Spanish
dirección, espaço de endereçamento, discurso…
in Portuguese
endereço, discurso, dirigir-se a…
पत्ता, ई -पत्ता, अक्षरं आणि चिन्ह मिळून तयार केलेली एक ओळ जी इंटरनेट वर काही शोधण्यासाठी किंवा ईमेल कुठे पाठवायची ते दर्शवते…
住所, 電子メール(Eメール)アドレス, ~に宛て先を書く…
adres, internet adresi, resmi konuşma…
adresse [feminine], discours [masculine], adresser…
adreça, posar l’adreça a, abordar…
adresseren, richten, aanpakken…
ஒரு நபர் எங்கு வாழ்கின்றரோ அல்லது வேலை பார்க்கிறாரோ அவருடைய வீட்டு எண், சாலையின் பெயர், நகரத்தின் பெயர்…
पता, जिसमें किसी व्यक्ति के निवास या कार्यस्थल को दर्शाने के लिये मकान का नंबर, सड़क का नाम और शहर का नाम शामिल होते हैं और जिस पर पत्र आदि भेजे जा सकते हैं…
સરનામું, ઇન્ટરનેટ પર કંઈ પણ શોધવા માટે કે ઈમેઈલ ક્યાં મોકલવો તે બતાવવા માટે અક્ષરો અને પ્રતિકોની શૃંખલા, સંબોધન…
adressere, rette (mine) ord, henvende (mig) til…
adressera, rikta, ställa…
letak alamat, menujukan, menangani…
adressieren, richten (an), angehen…
adresse [masculine], tale [masculine], adressere…
پتہ, ای میل کا پتہ, خطاب کرنا…
адресувати, звертатися, вирішувати…
చిరునామా, అడ్రస్, అంతర్జాల చిరునామా లేక అడ్రస్…
ঠিকানা, বাড়ির নম্বর, রাস্তার নাম…
napsat adresu, adresovat, určit…
memberi alamat, menyampaikan, mengatasi…
เขียนชื่อที่อยู่, พูดกับหรือเขียนถึง, จัดการปัญหา…
đề địa chỉ, nói với hay viết cho ai, chú tâm đến…
adres, wystąpienie, orędzie…
주소, (이메일)주소, -(이름) 앞으로 우편을 보내다…
indirizzo, indirizzo (di posta elettronica, sito web)…
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