direct address
Americannoun
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Grammar. the use of a term or name for the person spoken to, as in securing the attention of that person; use of a vocative form.
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Computers. indirect address
Example Sentences
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She seems very comfortable with the direct address.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025
At various points, Zarin shifts from third to first person, then integrates a second person voice, the book’s private reader, which becomes the object of a heightened strategy of direct address.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2024
What decisions did you make about using metatextual qualities and visual style and using direct address and other gimmicks to hold the viewer’s hand through the film?
From Salon • Oct. 26, 2023
“Today I initiated a phone call with the president of the Russian Federation,” Zelensky said in a direct address to the Russian people he gave on the eve of the war.
From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2023
In Direct Address.—Words used in direct address are set off by commas.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)
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