To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).
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 prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
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 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.
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.
To play the game of cricket.
A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
A wooden footstool.
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.