address

«address» in Mova's school dictionary: The details of where a person lives or a building is:… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an address, addresses); verb (address, addresses, addressed, addressing)

meaning for a pupil

1) The details of where a person lives or a building is: house number, street, town, postcode or ZIP code. tree →

2) An email or website address. tree →

3) A formal speech: an address to the school. tree →

4) Verb: to write an address on a letter or parcel. tree →

5) Verb: to speak to someone or a group: «address the class». tree →

6) Verb: to deal with a problem: «address the issue». tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety lessons: learn your own address and a parent's phone number in case you get lost; but never give your address to strangers or post it online. In writing lessons: address a letter or envelope. In manners: how to address adults (Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Sir, Miss). Phrases: home address, email address, address book, change of address, address someone as, keynote address.

examples

• Do you know your home address? tree →
• Write the address on the envelope. tree →
• Never share your address online. tree →
• What's your email address? tree →
• The head teacher addressed the whole school. tree →
• Address your teacher as Mr Smith or Ms Jones. tree →
• We moved house, so we have a new address. tree →
• The president gave an address on TV. tree →
• When they were alone, Scheherazade addressed her thus: tree →

note

Double d and double s: «address». Plural: addresses. Stress: noun is often «a-DRESS» (UK) or «AD-ress» (US), verb is «a-DRESS». Your address is private information, like your password.

In the corpora

• Never share your full name, address or school with a bot or an app.
• Bots can invent phone numbers and addresses that belong to nobody, or to a stranger.
• You keep people's personal details, such as addresses, private, and politely explain why you won't share them.
• In Liverpool "boss" means great; in the East Midlands "me duck" is a friendly way to address someone.
• Know your parent's phone number and your address by heart, so that a helper can call your family.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «address» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.