Talk:address

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.


 * 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)


 * 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)


 * 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)

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)

transitive verb: face
transitive verb: to stand facing a dance partner or an archery target Microsoft® Encarta® 2009

Legal term
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)