Dictionary

address

-noun

1. Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
2. Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.
3. A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters.
4. Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.
5. Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady. Addison.
6. Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
7. (obsolete) Act of preparing one's self.
8. street address

-verb

1. (intransitive) (obsolete) To prepare one's self.
2. (intransitive) (obsolete) To direct speech.
3. (transitive) (obsolete) To aim; to direct.
4. (transitive) (obsolete) To prepare or make ready.
5. (transitive) (reflexive) To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
6. (transitive) (archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.
7. (transitive) To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).
8. (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; to accost.
9. (transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.
10. (transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
11. (transitive) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
12. (transitive) To address one's self to; to prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to; to direct one's speech or discourse to.
13. (transitive) (formal) To handle, discuss about a problem especially to solve it.