What's the difference between address and directory?

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.

Directory


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
  • (n.) A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.
  • (n.) A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.
  • (n.) A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.
  • (n.) Direction; guide.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The system has been successfully used for 18 months to create directories for a teaching file, for presentations, and for clinical research.
  • (2) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
  • (3) Anti-radicalisation is the whole community’s responsibility to deal with, not just the Muslim community.” Other critics point to provisions in the funding deed for the directory that allow the department to disclose confidential information about participants “to the responsible minister or prime minister”, or to a parliamentary committee.
  • (4) Patients admitted for the first AMI at 2 hospitals in Fukuoka City were aged 40 to 69 years, and control subjects were recruited based on the telephone directory of the city.
  • (5) On the basis of these findings, we conclude that PTH has the directory vasodepressive action and the effect of augmentation of the left ventricular contractile force.
  • (6) A computer-formatted directory was produced, with access via geographic location, personal name, organizational name, and keyword.
  • (7) You can find customer testimonials at online directory Allagents.co.uk .
  • (8) The resulting directory, published in July 1988, lists 494 programs involving 84 countries: 319 in medicine, 44 in dentistry, 30 in pharmacy, and 101 in public health.
  • (9) The Physician's Desk Reference and the United States Pharmacopeia Drug Information directory contain numerous warnings of potential interactions between topical glaucoma medications and systemically administered drugs.
  • (10) Jay Kennedy is head of policy at the Directory of Social Change This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional.
  • (11) It was here – "possibly in this very seat" – that his father made the fateful decision to watch his son's writing and directorial debut, a 2009 short called What Will Survive of Us , unaware that this Todd Solondz-inspired work was largely concerned with the topic of anal sex.
  • (12) Using another sample of death certificates, comparisons of the information for 322 decedents with city directory data produced similar results.
  • (13) Ninety-two percent of the respondents indicated a need for reviews of films and videotapes pertinent to occupational therapy, either in a directory--or a directory, with monthly reviews of new materials in the Occupational Therapy Newspaper or AJOT.
  • (14) The helpline, which gets one third of its funding from government and the rest from the finance industry, doesn't advertise its services but is listed in telephone directories.
  • (15) But the internal directory lists her as reporting directly to the chief financial officer, Tom Szkutak, not to Bezos.
  • (16) Systematic random sampling was used, and 1 out of 25 phone numbers were selected from the county telephone directory.
  • (17) I now have a pretty comprehensive mental directory of the helpful pharmacists and the unhelpful pharmacists in central London .
  • (18) An upgrade is required for the online and catalogue Directory business, as Next admits.
  • (19) Members of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists were asked to supply information about their current programs and their own graduate training in order to compile a training directory and to analyze certain aspects of the discipline.
  • (20) At the same time as it decided to offload RBI, the company announced the £2.1bn acquisition of US risk-management business ChoicePoint to complement its suite of professional data businesses such as tax bible Tolley's and legal directory Butterworths.