address
/əˈdɹɛs/ noun A1- A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style. · a man of pleasing or insinuating address
- 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.
- An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this.
- 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. · The President's address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.
- The location of a property. · I went to his address but there was nobody there.
- A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory. · The program will crash if there is no valid data stored at that address.
- 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.
Plural addresses
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A great step had been gained by the discovery of the address of the house at which he had boarded—a result which was entirely due to the acuteness and energy of Mr.
“I was forced to read the address to know to whom to give it.”
In spite of his repugnance to address the guards, Dantès turned to the nearest gendarme, and taking his hand,
He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy.
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