address
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
Direction.
- 2.
Preparation.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive, obsolete)To prepare oneself.
- 2.
(intransitive, obsolete)To direct speech.
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(obsolete, transitive)To aim; to direct.
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(obsolete, transitive)To prepare or make ready.
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(reflexive, transitive)To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
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(reflexive)To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
1701, Thomas Brown, Laconics, or New Maxims of State and Conversation, London: Thomas Hodgson, section 76, p. 103, In the Reign of King Charles the Second, a certain Worthy Divine at Whitehall, thus Address’d himself to the Auditory at the conclusion of his Sermon.
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(archaic, transitive)To clothe or array; to dress.
Đồng nghĩa: beclothe, dight, put on, accouter, address, apparel, array, attire, beclothe, clothe, dight, don, garment, dress, enrobe, equip, invest, put on, robe, slip on, vest
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(transitive)To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience).
He addressed some portions of his remarks to his supporters, some to his opponents.
- 9.
(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.
- 10.
(transitive)To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
He addressed a letter.
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(transitive)To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
Đồng nghĩa: romance, put the moves on, address, beau, bedear, chase after, court, endear, make a move (on), make love, pitch woo, put the moves on, romance, solicit, spark, woo
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(transitive)To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
The ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
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ine-pro From Middle English adressen (to raise erect, adorn), from Old French adrecier (to straighten, address) (modern adresser), from *addīrēctiāre, from ad- (to; towards) + *dīrēctiāre (to guide; to direct), from Latin dīrēctus (straight; right), from dīrigō (to lay straight; to direct), itself from regō (to govern, to rule). Cognate with aderezar.