different between address vs gear

English

Etymology

From Middle English adressen (“to raise erect, adorn”), from Old French adrecier (“to straighten, address”) (modern French adresser), from a- (from Latin ad (“to”)) + drecier (modern French dresser (“to straighten, arrange”)) < Vulgar Latin *d?recti?, from Latin d?rectus (“straight or right”), from the verb d?rig?, itself from reg? (“to govern, to rule”). Cognate with Spanish aderezar (“to garnish; dress (food); to add spices”).

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • enPR: ?dr?s?, ??dr?s, IPA^(key): /??d??s/, /?æd??s/
• Verb:
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?dr?s?, IPA^(key): /??d??s/
  • (General American, Canada) enPR: ?dr?s?, ?dr?s?, IPA^(key): /??d??s/, /æ?d??s/
  • (General American, rare) enPR: ??dr?s, IPA^(key): /?æd??s/
• Rhymes: -?s
• Hyphenation: ad?dress

Noun

address (plural addresses)

1. Direction.
   1. (obsolete) Guidance; help. [15th–17th c.]
   2. (chiefly in the plural, now archaic) A polite approach made to another person, especially of a romantic nature; an amorous advance. [from 16th c.]
      • 1723, Richard Steele, The Lover and Reader, page 115:

        [H]e was thus agreeable, and I neither insensible of his Perfections, nor displeased at his Addresses to me […] .

   3. A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style. [from 16th c.]

   4. 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. [from 17th c.]
   5. An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this. [from 17th c.]
      • 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, VII:

        Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable impatience, could contain himself no longer.

   6. 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. [from 17th c.]

   7. (by extension) The property itself. [from 19th c.]

   8. (computing) 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. [from 20th c.]

2. Preparation.
   1. (now rare) Preparedness for some task; resourcefulness; skill, ability. [from 16th c.]
      • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 129:

        The warmth of Father Pedro's constitution had formerly drawn him into some scrapes from which it required all his address to disengage himself, and rendered him exceedingly cautious ever after.

      • 1813, "Customs, Manners, and present Appearance of Constantinople", The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the year 1812, p. 179 (Google preview):

        At their turning-lathes, they employ their toes to guide the chisel; and, in these pedipulations, shew to Europeans a diverting degree of address.

   2. (obsolete) The act of getting ready; preparation. [17th–18th c.]
      • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:

        But now again she makes address to speak.

   3. (golf) The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging. [from 19th c.]

Synonyms

• adroitness
• discourse
• harangue
• ingenuity
• lecture
• oration
• petition
• readiness
• speech
• tact

Derived terms

• subaddress

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: adres
• ? Bole: adireshi
• ? Cebuano: adres
• ? Sinhalese: ??????? (æ?ras)
• ? Tagalog: adres

Translations

Verb

address (third-person singular simple present addresses, present participle addressing, simple past and past participle addressed or (obsolete) addrest)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.

   • Young Turnus to the Beauteous Maid addre?s’d.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I Canto X:

     And this good knight his way with me addrest.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.
   • Then Turnus, from his chariot, leaping light, Addre?s’d him?elf on foot to ?ingle fight.

   • 1649, Jeremy Taylor, The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life According to the Christian Institution

     The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming.

5. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3

     […] good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.

6. (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
   • 1701, Thomas Brown, Laconics, or New Maxims of State and Conversation, London: Thomas Hodgson, section 76, p. 103,^[1]

     In the Reign of King Charles the Second, a certain Worthy Divine at Whitehall, thus Address’d himself to the Auditory at the conclusion of his Sermon.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume I, Chapter 11,^[2]

     He addressed himself directly to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation […]

   • 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., p. 66, Article V, Section 34,^[3]

     When any member is about to speak in debate, he shall rise and respectfully address himself to “Mr. Chairman.”

7. (transitive, archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.

   Synonyms: beclothe, dight, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe
8. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) (transitive) To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience).

   • though the young Heroe had addre?s’d his Prayers to him for his a??i?tance

9. (transitive) 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.

   • Are not your orders to address the senate?

   • 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 3

     The representatives of the nation in parliament, and the privy council, address the king

   • 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

     Rimmer paused for no discernible reason, then yelled, equally inexplicably: 'Shut up!', wheeled round 180º, and appeared to be addressing a dartboard.
10. (transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.

11. (transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.

    Synonyms: romance, put the moves on; see also Thesaurus:woo

12. (transitive) To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.

13. (transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to.
    • 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

      He stepped away from the sink, put up the toilet ring (Vi complained bitterly if he forgot to put it down when he was through, but never seemed to feel any pressing need to put it back up when she was), and addressed the John.
14. (transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
15. (transitive, computing) To refer to a location in computer memory.
16. (golf, transitive) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).

Usage notes

• The intransitive uses can be understood as omission of the reflexive pronoun.

Derived terms

• addressee
• addresser

Translations

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?adr?s/

Noun

address (plural addresses)

1. an address

Verb

address (third-person singular present addresses, present participle addressin, past addresst, past participle addresst)

1. to address

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Etymology

From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijan? (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: gîr, IPA^(key): /???(?)/
• (US) enPR: gîr, IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Noun

gear (countable and uncountable, plural gears)

1. (uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
2. Clothing; garments.
3. (obsolete) Goods; property; household items.

   • 1551, Ralph Robinson (sometimes spelt Raphe Robynson) (translator), Utopia (originally written by Sir Thomas More)

4. (countable) A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other; a gear wheel.

   Synonyms: cog, cogwheel, gearwheel

5. (countable, automotive, cycling) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
6. (countable, automotive) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
7. (aviation) Ellipsis of landing gear.

8. (slang) Recreational drugs, including steroids.
   • 2003, Marianne Hancock, Looking for Oliver (page 90)

9. (uncountable, archaic) Stuff.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:

10. (obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.
11. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
    • (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
    • March 29, 1549, Hugh Latimer, the fourth sermon preached before King Edward

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

gear (third-person singular simple present gears, present participle gearing, simple past and past participle geared)

1. (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
2. (engineering, intransitive) To be in, or come into, gear.
3. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
4. (usually with to or toward(s)) To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).

   This shop is not really geared towards people of our age.

   They have geared the hotel mainly at tourists.

5. (finance) To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

gear (comparative more gear, superlative most gear)

1. (chiefly Liverpudlian) great or fantastic

Anagrams

• Ager, GRAE, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gare, rage

Manx

Alternative forms

• geayr, geyre

Etymology

From Old Irish gér.

Verb

gear (verbal noun gearey)

1. to laugh, chuckle

Adjective

gear

1. sharp, keen
2. sour, acid

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old English

Alternative forms

• ??r, ??r – Anglian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *j?r?, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?r-. Cognate with Old Frisian j?r (West Frisian jier), Old Saxon j?r (Middle Low German jâr), Dutch jaar, Old High German j?r (German Jahr), Old Norse ár (Danish/Norwegian/Swedish år, Icelandic/Faroese ár), Gothic ???????????? (j?r). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ??? (h?ra, “season”), Russian ??? (jara), Czech jaro, Lithuanian jore (“springtime”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jæ???r/

Noun

??ar n (nominative plural ??ar)

1. year
2. the runic character ? (/j/)

Declension

Derived terms

• ??ardagas
• ??arl??
• ?e?ra (uncertain)

Descendants

• Middle English: yeer, here, yere, ?ere
  • English: year
  • Scots: year

Portuguese

Etymology

From an Old Portuguese *gear (compare geo), from Latin gel?re, present active infinitive of gel?. Doublet of the borrowing gelar. Compare also Galician xear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?i?a?]

Verb

gear (first-person singular present indicative geio, past participle geado)

1. (impersonal) to frost (weather)

Conjugation

Related terms

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????r/

Adverb

gear

1. together

Further reading

• “gear (III)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011