REDIRECT

redirect, airt

(verb) channel into a new direction; “redirect your attention to the danger from the fundamentalists”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

redirect (third-person singular simple present redirects, present participle redirecting, simple past and past participle redirected)

(transitive) To give new direction to, change the direction of.

(transitive) To instruct to go, inquire, elsewhere.

(computing, transitive) To substitute an address or pointer to a new location.

(computing) To send to a new location by substituting an address or pointer.

Synonyms

• reorient

Noun

redirect (plural redirects)

A redirection.

(legal) An examination of a witness, following cross-examination, by the party that conducted the direct examination.

(computing) The substitution of one address or identifier for another one, so as to navigate to a different location.

Synonyms

• (legal): redirect examination

Anagrams

• cedriret, directer, recredit

Source: Wiktionary


Re`di*rect" (r`d*rkt"), a. (Law)

Definition: Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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