direct address
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandaddress
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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address
noun[C]
uk/əˈdres/us/ˈæd.res/
the number of the house, name of the road, and name of the town where a person lives or works, and where letters can ...
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(Definition ofdirectandaddressfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdirect address
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The storytelling function of individual narrators tends to converge on a mode ofdirectaddresswhich is the 'authorial' voice of the play's company.
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Frequent assertion of the player's presence is of course an essential part of maintainingdirectaddressto the spectators.
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Stan follows up with a return greeting, followed by adirectaddresswhich shows that he recognizes her.
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The baptismal formula includes a robust tendency to use the progressive indirectaddress.
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There is adirectaddressto the reader, highlighted key points and margin summaries.
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When producing a summons for a targeted recipient,directaddressis often used.
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If music-making is an interaction among persons, as such it demandsdirectaddress' (264).
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On-stage storytelling is the norm here; so are other devices, such asdirectaddressto the audience, the aside, and the aforementioned self-introduction, which underscore the artificiality of the drama.
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Alexis packages her engaging turn with a greeting plusdirectaddressand a selfidentification preceding the launch of the purpose of her call.
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The chapter on nouns, for example, identifies five species (common, proper, collective, concrete, abstract) and five applications (subject, complement of verb, object of preposition, appositive,directaddress).
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The use of a greeting form or adirectaddressprior to launching the purpose of the call previews upcoming substantive talk for the recipient(s).
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Wagner'sdirectaddressconstructs and attempts to sustain a readership that would be brought into an intimate relation with the text.
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In addition, modified tones are used in compounds, reduplications anddirectaddressto family members.
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Nouns are used fordirectaddress, but transitive verbs in all other cases.
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Her work embraces theatrical devices from across several traditions, incorporating, in various works,directaddress, bunraku puppetry, omniscient narration, and fantasy sequences.
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A vocative expression is an expression ofdirectaddresswhere the identity of the party spoken to is set forth expressly within a sentence.
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The vocative, a case ofdirectaddress, is marked by an ending only in words of the second declension.
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Series 2 leaves this format, instead starting in the characters' flat, with nodirectaddressto the audience.
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