What's the difference between address and alleviate?

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.
  • (v. t.) Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Alleviate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.
  • (v. t.) To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate.
  • (v. t.) To extenuate; to palliate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
  • (2) To alleviate these problems we developed an object-oriented user interface for the pipeline programs.
  • (3) The drug proved to be of high value in alleviating nocturnal coughing controlling spastic bronchitis in children, as a pretreatment before bronchological examinations and their anaesthesia.
  • (4) Ketazolam was found to be significantly better than placebo in alleviating anxiety and its concomitant symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, three Physician's Global Impressions, two Patient's Global Impressions, and three Target Symptoms.
  • (5) We have studied if 2 Hz electroacupuncture alleviates chronic nociceptive pain and if so whether the alleviation was related to the release of endogenous opioids.
  • (6) Therapy with prednisone appears to alleviate the hypoglycemia rapidly, usually within 24 hours.
  • (7) Chemonucleolysis is a procedure in which an enzyme is injected into the intervertebral disc for the purpose of alleviating sciatic pain.
  • (8) Major alleviation of the rigidity and bradykinesia with chronic oral l-dopa therapy was not accompanied by any change in the silent period.
  • (9) Michael Brown’s parents, appearing on the Today show on Tuesday, said they believe the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, would be alleviated by the prosecution of the officer who shot and killed their son.
  • (10) Possible applications of the study in alleviating rural doctor shortages are discussed.
  • (11) Co-existent superficial femoral disease can be alleviated by appropriate concomitant profundaplasty.
  • (12) I used it primarily as a social lubricant but also to alleviate boredom, stress and loneliness.
  • (13) It is necessary to have available a means of alleviating this symptom in a way that will be effective, comfortable, and efficient in terms of time and expense.
  • (14) The routine use of topical anesthetics to alleviate discomfort associated with in vivo ocular irritancy testing has been advocated.
  • (15) Rwanda was among 11 signatories to a regional peace agreement signed last month, and has been praised for progress on poverty alleviation.
  • (16) If more people are helped before their problems become crises, this would alleviate some of the pressures on our social care services.
  • (17) "We have developed this in conjunction with organisations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a way of alleviating a real health problem in the developing world," says Dubock.
  • (18) However, before appropriate management decisions can be made to alleviate the effects of behavioral stress on reproduction, it is necessary to identify the mechanisms by which stress disrupts normal reproduction.
  • (19) The effectiveness of even a low dose of 4-methylpyrazole suggests its clinical usefulness for alleviation of acute acetaldehyde toxicity in alcohol-hypersensitive Japanese individuals as well as in disulfiram-treated alcoholics.
  • (20) Devastating neurologic complications can be avoided or alleviated in a great proportion of patients undergoing radiation therapy for cerebral metastases and spinal cord compression.