(v. t.) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
(v. t.) To approach; to make up to.
(v. t.) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
(v. i.) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
(n.) Address; greeting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russian president Vladimir Putin, left, is accosted by a Femen activist in Hanover as the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, looks on.
(2) #ocetisakowincamp #nodapl A photo posted by Colin McCarthy (@colinnnnn) on Nov 12, 2016 at 10:34am PST The man, identified as Richard Leingang by the Morton County sheriff’s office, was driving on County Road 82 when he was “stopped and accosted by protesters”, said Maxine Herr, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office.
(3) Around the time we were filming the second series of CTM, I attended a midwifery conference and was accosted by a midwifery admissions tutor who told me in mock accusation that I was making her life extremely difficult; her midwifery course had 16 places, and that year she had almost 1,000 applicants.
(4) Morrissey made his first TV appearance in a period drama Stumbling accidentally on to the Coronation Street set as a teenager, Morrissey found himself accosted by a woman bearing a bundle of scripts.
(5) Apparently so – but with social media in meltdown at the prospect of Peter Dutton’s black-garbed men accosting strangers and demanding their papers, the under-the-clocks press conference quickly descended into predictable chaos.
(6) As we walk near his home – Moore greeting local business owners and passersby like old friends, or posing for pictures with strangers who accost him, street art by Shepard Fairey and D*Face on every other wall – it feels like hipster heaven: the wide streets and unbroken blue sky a Californian antidote to the claustrophobic and hypercompetitive buzz-chasing of east London or Brooklyn.
(7) Responses to Doyle’s tweet included one from another Twitter user who asked : “What has a Muslim woman in Croydon, got to do with the horrific events in Belgium, you simpleton?” Another, referring to the far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, asked : “Did anyone accost you on the streets of Croydon after the Brevik shooting in Norway?
(8) This, in my view, is a much graver breach of BBC guidelines than giving unchallenged airtime to one political party but not others, as the bosses are the people who possess real power – those, in other words, whom the BBC has the greatest duty to accost.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest There is a heartbreaking scene in which the wonderfully plump Sara, Emma's six-year-old sister, is accosted by a (female) lifeguard who asks where her bikini top is: "She's on her way to becoming a woman, she should be covered."
(10) A week later, police accosted a friend of mine as she was leaving a dinner.
(11) Photo: Steve Ullathorne Rhys Darby: The chap from the rural working men's club who accosted me in the toilets after a gig with the line, "How many people have told you you're funny?
(12) In the pre-dawn hours of June 18, 1989, four men accosted and fatally shot Dana Feitler, a University of Chicago business school student, in her posh Gold Coast neighborhood.
(13) In her intense refutations of my casual comments about cyclists, for example (I am not a cyclist and have just nearly been run over by one; she was chair of the all-party cycling group), I can still hear the earnest young campaigner who once accosted a graffiti artist and lectured him about his social responsibility.
(14) After being accosted on the stairs by other residents, she was too frightened to use the communal kitchen to heat her daughter’s milk or her own food.
(15) When he was accosted by a security guard, Jackson said: “I just needed another jacket, man.” A few months later Jackson was convicted of shoplifting and sent to Angola prison in Louisiana.
(16) They accosted a steward almost crossly, demanding: "Is this free ?"
(17) Another woman – small and dark-haired – was the one who accosted the assailant first."
(18) Helal Raman, a local Labour activist who had appeared in the Panorama programme, claimed he had been accosted by one of Rahman's supporters as they filed past the body of a recently deceased mutual friend at a mosque.
(19) Subsequently, another tabloid discovered Paddick's then partner was on a particular transatlantic flight, and was able to accost him: "The inference must be that private information was obtained."
(20) "A police officer jumped out of his truck to try to halt the gruesome attack and was accosted by the crowd and accused of being a traitor.
Address
Definition:
(v.) To aim; to direct.
(v.) To prepare or make ready.
(v.) Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
(v.) To clothe or array; to dress.
(v.) To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).
(v.) 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.
(v.) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.
(v.) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
(v.) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
(v. i.) To prepare one's self.
(v. i.) To direct speech.
(v. t.) Act of preparing one's self.
(v. t.) Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
(v. t.) Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.
(v. t.) Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady.
(1) We have addressed the effect of late intensification with autologous bone marrow transplantation on SCLC through a randomized clinical trial.
(2) 2009 Visits the US for first time to address the UN general assembly.
(3) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(4) The highest antishock effect of dopamine is reached when cardiac output fraction addressed to thoracic region vitals is supported by dopamine on the 43-45% level.
(5) In light of these findings, the implications of the need to address appraisals and coping efforts in research and therapy with incest victims was emphasized.
(6) Two different approaches were developed within the framework of Relational LABCOM to address both the intermediate and long-term storage of data.
(7) There is evidence that some of these problems are being addressed as new research initiatives are being undertaken both nationally and internationally that are relevant to both AIDS and sexuality.
(8) This article addresses the special problems raised by patients who resist medical feeding.
(9) The question addressed by this study is whether patients with other pharyngeal pouch malformations could also have immunologic abnormalities.
(10) The alignment of Clinton’s Iowa team, all but guaranteeing a declaration of her official campaign before the end of next month, was coming into view amid reports that she was due to address by the end of the week controversy over her use of a private email account as secretary of state.
(11) We assume that the fragments have been assembled and address the problem of determining the degree to which the reconstructed sequence is free from errors, i.e., its accuracy.
(12) However, fractional addressing introduces distortion.
(13) In this critical review of human in vivo nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the questions of which chemical species can be detected and with what sensitivity, their biochemical significance, and their potential clinical value are addressed.
(14) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
(15) Thirty patients required a second operation to an area previously addressed reflecting inadequacies in technique, the unpredictability of bone grafts, and soft-tissue scarring.
(16) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(17) The department has redacted the IP addresses and details of network owners who downloaded the file.
(18) It is right that the food banks feed those who would otherwise go hungry, offering a picture of a different kind of economy, though they can do little to address the causes of hunger.
(19) The general efficacy of this intraocular lens compared with other anterior chamber lenses was not addressed in this study.
(20) The present article reports a study of how such lifestyle habits, notably alcohol and tobacco consumption, are addressed in medical consultations.