How to pronounce “address”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Direction.
• (obsolete) Guidance; help. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}[15th–17th c.]
• (chiefly in the plural, now archaic) A polite approach made to another person, especially of a romantic nature; an amorous advance.
• [from 16th c.]
• A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style.
• [from 16th c.]
• (diplomacy, politics) A formal approach to a sovereign or head of state, especially an official appeal or petition.
• [from 17th c.]
• (Commonwealth, politics) A response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.
• (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.
• (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.
• (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.
• (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
• (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
• (transitive, archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.
• (Discuss(+) this sense) (transitive) To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience).
• (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.
• (transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
• (transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
• (transitive) To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
• (transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to.
• (transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
• (transitive, computing) To refer to a location in computer memory.
• (transitive, golf, Scotland) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).[1]

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