Word Type
Address can be a noun or a verb.
address used as a noun:
- Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
- Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.
- 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.
- Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.
- Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady. Joseph Addison.
- Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
- Act of preparing one's self.
- street location.
- A location in computer memory.
- An Internet address; URL.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
address used as a verb:
- To prepare one's self.
"Let us address to tend on Hector's heels. - Shakespeare" - To direct speech.
"Young Turnus to the beauteous maid address. - John Dryden" - To aim; to direct.
"And this good knight his way with me addrest. - Edmund Spenser" - To prepare or make ready.
"His foe was soon addressed. - Edmund Spenser" - To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
"These men addressed themselves to the task. - Thomas Babington Macaulay" - To clothe or array; to dress.
"Tecla ... addressed herself in man's apparel. - Jewel" - To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).
"The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. - John Dryden" - 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.
"Are not your orders to address the senate? - Joseph Addison" - To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
"He addressed a letter." - To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
- To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
"The ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore." - 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.
- To handle, discuss about a problem especially to solve it.
"This meeting hopes to address how to improve sales overseas." - (computing) To refer a location in computer memory.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is address?
- Verb usage: Let us address to tend on Hector's heels. - Shakespeare
- Verb usage: Young Turnus to the beauteous maid address. - John Dryden
- Verb usage: And this good knight his way with me addrest. - Edmund Spenser
- Verb usage: His foe was soon addressed. - Edmund Spenser
- Verb usage: Turnus addressed his men to single fight. - John Dryden
- Verb usage: The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. - Jeremy Taylor
- Verb usage: These men addressed themselves to the task. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Verb usage: Tecla ... addressed herself in man's apparel. - Jewel
- Verb usage: The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. - John Dryden
- Verb usage: Are not your orders to address the senate? - Joseph Addison
- Verb usage: The representatives of the nation addressed the king. - Jonathan Swift
- Verb usage: He addressed a letter.
- Verb usage: The ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
- Verb usage: This meeting hopes to address how to improve sales overseas.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of address are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of address, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
