Talk:address

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To direct, as words

What do you mean by "to direct, as words" ? I understand what "to direct" means. The problem is "as words". I'm no native speaker. Thank you very much for your help. — This comment was unsigned.

We should have both better wording and a usage example. Take a look at how I've edited the sense. DCDuring TALK 13:48, 16 May 2012 (UTC)Reply
DCDuring, I don't see in any of the senses an explanation for usages such as "President Obama's inaugural address". Shouldn't there be an "important speech" sense for these cases? --Pereru (talk) 13:13, 19 July 2015 (UTC)Reply
It means "e.g. words", or "words, for example". Other things (such as a cough) might also perhaps be addressed to someone. Equinox 10:11, 14 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Missing sense? to don, put on clothes

Chambers 1908 has "(transitive, archaic) to don", i.e. put on clothing. We do have a sense "to clothe or array; to dress", but the grammatical object would be something different: you clothe a person, but you don an item of clothing. Equinox 10:11, 14 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

transitive verb: face

transitive verb: to stand facing a dance partner or an archery target
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There are a couple of obscure American legal senses from the Bouvier legal dictionary, as quoted in the Free Dictionary, that we might wish to include. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 09:27, 25 November 2022 (UTC) --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:55, 29 May 2020 (UTC)Reply