Redirect

noun, verb

noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1
A redirection.
2
An examination of a witness, following cross-examination, by the party that conducted the direct examination, re-examination.
3
The substitution of one address or identifier for another one, so as to navigate to a different location.
"On July 8, 2025 Glitch project hosting and user profiles will be shut down. Your Glitch dashboard will remain available as usual through the end of 2025, with access to download all of your code for your projects, as well as a new feature to set up redirects for your project subdomains so your URLs keep working."

Verb

1
To give new direction to, change the direction of. transitive
"redirect output to /dev/null"
2
channel into a new direction wordnet
3
To instruct to go, inquire, elsewhere. transitive
4
To substitute an address or pointer to a new location. transitive
5
To send to a new location by substituting an address or pointer.
"You will be redirected shortly."

Synonyms

airt divert readdress redirect examination reorient reorient

Example

"I want you to redirect the output of this command into that file."

Etymology

From re- + direct.

Related phrases

auto-redirect hard redirect soft redirect cross examination

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