Difference between Call and Address

What is the difference between Call and Address?

Call as a noun is a telephone conversation. while Address as a noun is direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.

Call

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A telephone conversation. A social visit. A cry or shout. A decision or judgement. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal. A beckoning or summoning. An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time. The act of calling to the other batsman. The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.) An overnight duty in the hospital. The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the point. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To request, summon, or beckon. To cry or shout. To contact by telephone. To pay a social visit. To name or refer to. (reflexively: to be called) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name. (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run. (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions.) To match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet. (with an object preceded by the preposition for) To require, demand. To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on. To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium. To demand repayment of a loan. To predict. To declare in advance. To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

Example sentence: Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Address

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters.Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady. Joseph Addison.Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.Act of preparing one's self.street location.A location in computer memory.An Internet address; URL.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To prepare one's self.To direct speech.To aim; to direct.To prepare or make ready.To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.To clothe or array; to dress.To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).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 accost.To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.To address one's self to; to prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to; to direct one's speech or discourse to.To handle, discuss about a problem especially to solve it.(computing) To refer a location in computer memory.

Example sentence: There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context.

We hope you now know whether to use Call or Address in your sentence.

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