Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To cause to move in a different direction or go to a different destination.
  • transitive verb To give directions for an alternate destination to (someone).
  • transitive verb To change the object or focus of (attention).
  • noun Law A redirect examination.
  • noun Sports A deflection by one player of a shot or pass by a teammate, as in hockey.
  • noun Computers A website that serves only to guide users to another website, typically when a website at one URL has been moved to a different URL.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Direct a second time: used only in the legal phrase redirect examination (which see, under examination, 2).
  • To direct again or anew: as, the parcel was sent to Boston and there redirected to Cambridge.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Law) Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To give new direction to, change the direction of.
  • verb transitive To instruct to go, inquire ... elsewhere
  • verb computing, transitive To substitute an address or pointer to a new location.
  • noun A redirection.
  • noun law An examination of a witness, following cross-examination, by the party that conducted the direct examination.
  • noun computing A substitution of an address or identifier for another one

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb channel into a new direction

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

re- +‎ direct

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Examples

  • ANNE BREMNER, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTY: Well, Tom Sneddon, on what they call redirect examination in a courtroom, I think came up with a good explanation for why the complainant, the accuser, didn't tell the dean at his school about the molestation.

    CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2005 2005

  • Web developers who think that despite what an SEO tells them, a 302 redirect is the way to go.

    2009 Top SEO Smackdowns: Sullivan v Powazek | Managing Greatness 2009

  • Matt Carle (FSY), who had four assists, fed Gagne for a nice redirect from the top of the crease for the winner.

    Flyers use overtime to survive, knock off Bruins in Game 4 2010

  • June 13, 12: 01pm: Twelve hours after launch, a passionate and vitriol-filled flame war erupts amongst web protocol nazis about exacly which 300-series HTTP header should be used to redirect from the old/profile. php? id = 500012896 URLs to the new system.

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  • I think Topix. net has done a pretty good job of telling the world that they are “Topix. net”, why go through the effort of risking the potential lost traffic of a domain redirect and re-branding – especially when the new domain cost you $1m.

    Topix Embraces Citizen Journalism 2007

  • The redirect from the old domain to your new one is working fine; if you google for 'the thinking blog' it finds posts on your old domain, but clicking on the links takes you to the post on the new domain.

    The Thinking Blog Dot Com 2007

  • The service creates a redirect from a short Bit. ly link out to a longer link on any web page.

    Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0 2009

  • I’m only getting one listing displayed, perhaps the redirect is a recent change and Google have just reindexed this.

    Google Now Lets You Strip Parameters from URLs 2007

  • The closing admin would have deleted the page about Brett Clouser and replaced it with a page called a "redirect" -- when you type "Brett Clouser" into the search field, you would be taken to the

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2010

  • Which brings me to the whole preposterous idea that somehow, we conservatives need to change - or to use the in-vogue word, "redirect" -- our message.

    Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll 2009

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