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addressing
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail 2 (context computing English) Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage 3 (context linguistics English) A mode, manner, or form of direct one's speech ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Address \Ad*dress"\ ([a^]d*dr[e^]s"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Addressed (-dr[e^]st"); p. pr. & vb. n. Addressing .] [OE. adressen to raise erect, adorn, OF. adrecier, to straighten, address, F. adresser, fr. [`a] (L. ad) + OF. drecier, F. dresser, to straighten, ...
Usage examples of addressing.
Thrusting them into a basin of water, Adad cleansed himself before again addressing Semerket.
Klia flopped down unceremoniously in front of Seregil but ignored him completely, addressing Alec as if they were old friends.
Maud answered, and called to two men I had not noticed, addressing one as almoner and the other as chamberlain.
She was barely conscious that the Bailly had been addressing Philip, until he had stopped and Philip had risen to reply.
When the beauty found herself alone with me, she began by addressing friendly reproaches to me.
I gaze at the familiar iconography: my brother forthrightly addressing the camera, almost hungrily sentimental and bonhomous, his arm around me to proclaim the occasion.
These descriptions are the parts which Buffon intended for the general reader, expecting, doubtless, and desiring that such a reader should skip the dry parts he had been addressing to the more studious.
Addressing himself to the new prisoner, he said that, having to get a bed and other necessaries, he would leave us in the garret till he came back, and that, in the mean time, the cell would be freed from the bad smell, which was only oil.
Previous to the time of Socrates, orators in addressing popular assemblies, lawyers in pleading cases, and all public speakers, appear to have made use of the cithara as a sort of accompaniment, if for no other purpose than to assure themselves of securing a proper pitch of the voice.
I could see it clearly in his way of addressing me, as well as in the change in his proceedings.
Mr Lemley addressing Barry and Eric, whose mouths at this point resembled the ever-open splash cupulas of urinals found in the finest hotels in the land.
When she spoke, it was with the mildness of a cushat dove addressing another cushat dove from whom it was hoping to borrow money.
As she rose from her seat, she did not thank the guests for their applause, but, addressing the young artist with affability, she told him, with a sweet smile, that she had never played on a finer instrument.
The same gentleman addressing himself again to me, remarked that very likely the windows of my room did not close well.
After addressing me in a very complimentary manner, she drew all my answers from her pocket, and enquired whether I had any pressing engagements.