What's the difference between address and bespeak?

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.

Bespeak


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.
  • (v. t.) To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.
  • (v. t.) To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances.
  • (v. t.) To speak to; to address.
  • (v. i.) To speak.
  • (n.) A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.)

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The constitution bespeaks an alternative model of development based on buen vivir , a notion so novel that it can only be adequately uttered in a non-colonial language, Quechua : sumak kawsay .
  • (2) One blogger writes: "It bespeaks great scientific arrogance (of the kind that Wolf supposedly decries!)
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Albania has yet to recover from the 40 terrible years of Hoxha’s dictatorship.’ Photograph: Corbis Second, because these jokes bespeak a kind of left cosiness, an assumption of shared assumptions that bodes ill for Labour .
  • (4) It's an appealingly blunt job description that bespeaks supreme executive power.
  • (5) Whereas any contemplation suggesting routinization in a plastic surgery endeavor may engender abhorrence or bespeak heresy, some generalizations are essential at least as a foundation from which a logical divergence may proceed.
  • (6) Moreover, within the same species, the cause of death of an individual varies widely, which again bespeaks against a regulatory mechanism.
  • (7) In times past, great educators have spoken without compunction about the virtues of discrimination – not the loaded modern use of the word bespeaking one-upmanship and prejudice, but discrimination as a discipline of the intellect and character.
  • (8) In fact, even appearing as a "celebrity" in a documentary such as this bespeaks a desperation of a professional rather than practical kind (there are ways to investigate poverty without turning to the AK-47 of fleeting and synthetic empathy, reality TV), and that is only its first offence.
  • (9) Recent advances at clinical and experimental levels bespeak the need for a more complete understanding of cardiac growth and its relationship to somatic growth.
  • (10) Presumably, recognition mechanisms for hormones in protozoa resemble in some respects those in multicellular organisms, therefore bespeaking a common origin.
  • (11) When the Labour London assembly member Andrew Dismore accused him last September of lying about cuts to London's fire services, Johnson's considered response was "Get stuffed" – which does not bespeak a coherent political belief system, or even patience with the processes.
  • (12) In a 24-page legal “letter before claim” sent to Hunt, the quintet claim: “To have taken a decision of such consequence, in the face of such opposition and escalating industrial action, and in the absence of support from leaders in the NHS, in under 24 hours and without consultation, bespeaks of a plainly irrational approach that failed to take account of the ramifications it was likely to involve.” Bindmans letter to Jeremy Hunt The challenge is being undertaken by Justice for Health , a company set up by the five junior doctors: Ben White, Francesca Silman, Marie McVeigh, Nadia Masood and Amar Mashru.
  • (13) This enkephalinergic system shows striking similarities to opioid mechanisms found in vertebrates and bespeaks a common evolutionary origin.
  • (14) The unchanging cell ATP concentration with a higher respiratory rate upon addition of exogenous substrate bespeaks increased ATP turnover.
  • (15) "Ahmadinejad's stubborn defence of Mashaei bespeaks his importance as a key adviser for the increasingly isolated president; he also has emerged as a spokesman for the Ahmadinejad administration.
  • (16) We still retain from our historical past the notion that mental or emotional illness bespeaks, if not possession by spirits, at least an irreversible condition.
  • (17) That's not exactly a biography that bespeaks social impotence and alienation.
  • (18) Religion , he says, glues us together, which doesn't bespeak an enormous amount of faith in the ability of human beings to find common ground outside a certain belief, for example, in the righteousness of the tooth fairy, or the tendency of trolls to live under bridges, although this is understandable – if you take the long view, we have had magic for ever, and the Enlightenment for about 10 minutes.
  • (19) Fundamental to a successful autopsy request is sensitivity for the family's feelings, which bespeaks respect for the deceased and the family.
  • (20) Ashker, whose pale, unlined face bespeaks decades without sun, does not expect to leave the hole.