address vs home

address

verb
  • To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake. 

  • 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 direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit. 

  • To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it. 

  • To direct one’s remarks (to someone). 

  • To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor. 

  • To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to. 

  • To refer to a location in computer memory. 

  • To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee). 

  • To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience). 

  • To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo. 

noun
  • An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this. 

  • A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style. 

  • A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter. 

  • The property itself. 

  • A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory; a string of characters identifying a location on the internet or other network; sometimes (specifically) an e-mail address. 

  • The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging. 

  • A formal approach to a sovereign, especially an official appeal or petition; later (specifically) a response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament. 

home

verb
  • To seek or aim for something. 

  • To return to its owner. 

noun
  • The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal. 

  • Home plate. 

  • The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player. 

  • The landing page of a website; the site's homepage. 

  • One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family. 

  • The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian. 

  • A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there. 

  • The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve. 

  • The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. 

  • One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. 

  • A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum. 

  • The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat. 

  • The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul. 

adj
  • Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign 

  • Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). 

adv
  • To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location 

  • To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly. 

  • At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home 

  • into the goal 

  • To the home page 

  • To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length 

  • To one's place of birth 

  • into the right, proper or stowed position 

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