Address vs Addressee - What's the difference?
address | addressee |
Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
Act of addressing oneself to a person; a discourse or speech.
* 1887 , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet , VII:
Manner of speaking to another; delivery.
Attention in the way one addresses a lady.
Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
* 1813 , "Customs, Manners, and present Appearance of Constantinople", The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the year 1812 ,
(obsolete) Act of preparing oneself.
A description of the location of a property.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (by extension) The property itself.
(computing) A location in computer memory.
(Internet) An Internet address; URL.
(obsolete) To prepare oneself.
* (rfdate), (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To speech.
* (rfdate), (John Dryden)
(obsolete) To aim; to .
* (rfdate), (Edmund Spenser)
(obsolete) To prepare or make ready.
* (rfdate), (Edmund Spenser)
* (rfdate), (John Dryden)
* (rfdate), (Jeremy Taylor)
(reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
* (rfdate) (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
(archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.
* (rfdate) Jewel
To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).
* (rfdate) (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.
* (rfdate) (Joseph Addison)
* (rfdate) (Jonathan Swift)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech or discourse to.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=Lee A. Groat, volume=100, issue=2, page=128, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 19, author=Josh Halliday, work=The Guardian
, title= (computing) To refer a location in computer memory.
(golf) To get ready to hit the ball on the tee.
The person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent, for whom the item is intended.
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Addressee is a related term of address.
As nouns the difference between address and addressee
is that address is direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed while addressee is the person or organization to which something, such as a letter or message, is addressed or sent, for whom the item is intended.As a verb address
is to prepare oneself.address
English
(wikipedia address)Noun
(es)- Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable impatience, could contain himself no longer.
p. 179 (Google preview):
- At their turning-lathes, they employ their toes to guide the chisel; and, in these pedipulations, shew to Europeans a diverting degree of address .
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}
Derived terms
* subaddress, subaddressingSynonyms
* adroitness * discourse * harangue * ingenuity * lecture * oration * petition * readiness * speech * tactVerb
- Let us address to tend on Hector's heels.
- Young Turnus to the beauteous maid addrest .
- And this good knight his way with me addrest .
- His foe was soon addressed .
- Turnus addressed his men to single fight.
- The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming.
- These men addressed themselves to the task.
- [...] good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.
- Tecla ... addressed herself in man's apparel.
- ''The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance.
- Are not your orders to address the senate?
- The representatives of the nation addressed the king.
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
Gemstones, passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)}}
Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?, passage="By all means we want people to use social media, but we do not want you to use it in ways that will incite violence," said Jonathan Toy, Southwark council's head of community safety. "This remains a big issue for us and without some form of censorship purely focusing on [violent videos], I'm not sure how we can address it."}}
Usage notes
* The intransitive uses can be understood as omission of the reflexive pronoun.addressee
English
Noun
(en noun)- Person'' is a grammatical property which is overtly manifested in so-called Personal Pronouns: forms which include the speaker (''I''/''we'') are said to be ‘first person? Pronouns; forms which include the addressee''' (''you'') and not the speaker are said to be ‘second person? Pronouns; while forms which exclude both speaker and '''addressee (''he''/''she''/''it''/''they ) are ‘third person? Pronouns.