address

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 ə-drĕsʹ

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Direction.; Guidance; help. obsolete
  2. Direction.; A polite approach made to another person, especially of a romantic nature; an amorous advance. archaic,in-plural
    — [H]e was thus agreeable, and I neither insensible of his Perfections, nor displeased at his Addresses to me […].
  3. Direction.; A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style.
    — a man of pleasing or insinuating address
  4. Direction.; A formal approach to a sovereign or head of state, especially an official appeal or petition.
  5. Direction.; A formal approach to a sovereign or head of state, especially an official appeal or petition.; A response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament. Commonwealth
  6. Direction.; An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this.
    — Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable impatience, could contain himself no longer.
  7. Direction.; A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter.
    — Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
  8. Direction.; The location of a property.
    — I went to his address but there was nobody there.
  9. Direction.; A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory.
    — The program will crash if there is no valid data stored at that address.
  10. Direction.; A string of characters identifying a node or range of nodes on a network (especially the Internet), such as an e-mail address, IP address or URL. Internet
  11. Preparation.; Preparedness for some task; resourcefulness; skill, ability. archaic
    — This is one bad effect of a good Character—it invites applications from the unfortunate and there needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of Benevolence without incurring the expence.—
  12. Preparation.; The act of getting ready; preparation. obsolete
    — But now again she makes address to speak.
  13. Preparation.; The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging. Scotland
动词 v.
  1. To prepare oneself. intransitive,obsolete
    — Let us address to tend on Hector's heels.
  2. To direct speech. intransitive,obsolete
    — Young Turnus to the Beaubteous Maid addreſs’d.
  3. To aim; to direct. obsolete,transitive
    — And this good knight his way with me addrest.
  4. To prepare or make ready. obsolete,transitive
    — His foe was soone addrest.
  5. To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake. reflexive,transitive
    — These men addressed themselves to the task.
  6. To direct one’s remarks (to someone). reflexive
    — 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.
  7. To clothe or array; to dress. archaic,transitive
    — Likewise Vincentius, and Petrus de Natalibus, and others your writers and recorders of fables could have told you that Tecla sometime addressed herself in man's apparel, and, had she not been forbidden by St Paul, would have followed him in company as a man.
  8. To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience). transitive
    — though the young Heroe had addreſs’d his Prayers to him for his aſſiſtance
  9. 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
    — Are not your orders to address the senate?
  10. To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit. transitive
    — He addressed a letter.
  11. To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo. transitive
  12. To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor. transitive
    — The ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
  13. To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to. transitive
    — He stepped away from the sink, put up the toilet ring (Vi complained bitterly if he forgot to put it down when he was through, but never seemed to feel any pressing need to put it back up when she was), and addressed the John.
  14. To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it. formal,transitive
    — "By all means we want people to use social media, but we do not want you to use it in ways that will incite violence," said Jonathan Toy, Southwark council's head of community safety. "This remains a big issue for us and without some form of censorship purely focusing on [violent videos], I'm not sure how we can address it."
  15. To refer to a location in computer memory. transitive
  16. To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee). Scotland,transitive

词形变化

addresses plural addresses present,singular,third-person addressing participle,present addressed participle,past addressed past addrest obsolete,participle,past addrest obsolete,past

词汇关系

衍生词
absolute address accommodation address addressal address assignment addressation address bar address book address bus addressful addressive addressless address line address message address of record addressograph address space address verification service base address counteraddress dynamic IP address e-address eddress email address form of address forwarding address ICBM address inaugural address inside address Internet address IP address logical address logical block address MAC address maladdress microaddress multiaddress network address NSAP address postal address public address system relative address return address salutatory address street address subaddress term of address virtual address web address addressability addressable addressee addresser addressible address me addressment address me 🐘 address the ball misaddress overaddress preaddress readdress unaddress

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Old French a-
Proto-Italic *dwizrektos
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti
Proto-Italic *dwizregō
Vulgar Latin dīrigō
Vulgar Latin dīrēctus
Proto-Indo-European *-yetider.
Vulgar Latin -iāre
Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre
Old French drecier
Old French adrecierbor.
Middle English adressen
English address
From Middle English adressen (“to radise erect, adorn”), from Old French adrecier (“to straighten, address”) (modern French adresser), from Proto-Romance *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 Spanish aderezar (“to garnish; dress (food); to add spices”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Old French a-
Proto-Italic *dwizrektos
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti
Proto-Italic *dwizregō
Vulgar Latin dīrigō
Vulgar Latin dīrēctus
Proto-Indo-European *-yetider.
Vulgar Latin -iāre
Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre
Old French drecier
Old French adrecierbor.
Middle English adressen
English address
From Middle English adressen (“to radise erect, adorn”), from Old French adrecier (“to straighten, address”) (modern French adresser), from Proto-Romance *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 Spanish aderezar (“to garnish; dress (food); to add spices”).
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