redirect

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ˌriːdɜrˈɛkt/

📖 Definitions

  1. verb
    To change the direction, course, or destination of something, such as traffic, a river, or a person's attention.; To send a letter, email, or other communication to a different address or recipient than originally intended.; In computing, to automatically send a user or data from one web address or location to another.; In law, to re-examine a witness after cross-examination by the opposing side.
  2. noun
    In computing, an instruction or mechanism that automatically forwards a user from one URL or page to another.

🔗 Details

Word forms

countable Plural: redirects 3rd sing.: redirects Past: redirected Past part.: redirected Pres part.: redirecting

Collocations

redirect trafficredirect attentionredirect resourcesredirect toURL redirectredirect a call

Derivatives

redirectionredirector

Synonyms

reroutedivertdeflectchannelrechannelrepoint

Antonyms

maintaincontinue

Commonly confused

reroute
EN: 'Re-route' specifically implies changing a physical path or route, while 'redirect' is broader and can apply to abstract things like attention, resources, or data.
forward
EN: 'Forward' implies passing something onward to a new recipient, while 'redirect' implies changing the intended destination or course entirely.

Spelling tips

EN: Write 'redirect' as one word without a hyphen; the hyphenated form 're-direct' is nonstandard.

💬 Examples

  1. The police redirected traffic away from the accident scene to prevent further congestion.

  2. Please redirect all my mail to my new address after I move.

  3. The old website URL will redirect visitors to the new domain automatically.

  4. The attorney was given permission to redirect the witness to clarify her earlier testimony.

  5. We set up a 301 redirect so that search engines would recognize the page had permanently moved.