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redirect

redirect verb: to give new direction to; to change the course, direction or destination of.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To give new direction to; to change the course, direction or destination of.
    • We need to redirect the traffic along Forest Road.
    • redirect output to /dev/null
    Synonyms:
    reorient
  2. (transitive) To instruct to go, inquire, elsewhere.
  3. (transitive) To gently shift a behavior or thought pattern to a healthier end.
    • When he starts ruminating like that, try to redirect him to use his coping skills.
  4. (transitive) To substitute an address or pointer to a new location.
  5. To send to a new location by substituting an address or pointer.
    • You will be redirected shortly.

Noun

redirect (plural redirects)

  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...2025 May 22, Anil Dash, “Important Changes are Coming to Glitch”, in Glitch, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025

redirect meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

redirect in Hindi

to give new direction to
अनुप्रेषित करना anupreṣit karnā
instruct to go elsewhere
अनुप्रेषित करना anupreṣit karnā
substitute an address or pointer to a new location
अनुप्रेषित करना anupreṣit karnā
substitution of an address for another one
अनुप्रेषण anupreṣaṇ

redirect in Tamil

வழிமாற்று

redirect in Marathi

पुनर्निर्देशन, पुनर्निर्देशीत करण्यासाठी

redirect in Bengali

নতুন দিকনির্দেশ দেওয়া, কোনো কিছুর গতিপথ, দিক, গন্তব্য পরিবর্তন করা
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redirect in Malayalam
തിരിച്ചുവിടുക tiriccuviṭuka
redirect in Kannada
ಹೊಸವಿಳಾಸಕ್ಕೆ ಕಳುಹಿಸು, ರವಾನಿಸು, ಪುನರ್ನಿರ್ದೇಶನ ಮಾಡು, ಪುನರ್ನಿರ್ದೇಶಿಸು
redirect in Punjabi
ਮੁਡ਼-ਨਿਰਦੇਸ਼ਿਤ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ, ਰੀਡਾਇਰੈਕਟ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ, ਮੁਡ਼ ਨਿਰਦੇਸ਼ਿਤ ਕਰਨਾ
redirect in Gujarati
રીડાયરેક્ટ કરવા માટે, પુનઃદિશામાન કરવા માટે, રીડાયરેક્ટ કરવા
redirect in Odia
ପୁନଃନିର୍ଦେଶିତ କରିବା ପାଇଁ, ପୁନଃନିର୍ଦେଶିତ କରିବା, ପୁନଃନିର୍ଦେଶିତ କରିବାକୁ

Examples of redirect in a sentence

  • I decided to leave a soft redirect explaining why the website had been moved.
  • I'd prefer to use a hard redirect so that people don't even notice we've reorganised the site.
  • She installed an L-shaped condulet when the conduit reached the ceiling to redirect the wires towards the far corner of the garage.

All 28 example sentences with redirect

Synonyms of redirect

Forms of redirect

Verb
third-person singular presentredirects
present participleredirecting
past participleredirected
pastredirected
Noun
pluralredirects

Past tense of redirect: redirected

Plural of redirect: redirects

Origin of redirect

From re- + direct.

Words formed from redirect

Words that rhyme with redirect

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Questions about redirect

What does redirect mean?
Redirect means to give new direction to; to change the course, direction or destination of.
What is redirect in Hindi?
Redirect in Hindi is अनुप्रेषित करना (anupreṣit karnā), अनुप्रेषण (anupreṣaṇ). See Redirect meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is redirect?
Redirect can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of redirect?
The past tense of redirect is redirected.

Words near redirect in the dictionary

  1. redipper
  2. redippers
  3. redipping
  4. redips
  5. redipt
  6. redirect
  7. redirectable
  8. redirected
  9. redirected walking
  10. redirectedness
  11. redirecting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: redirect (page history and authors); redirect (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); redirect (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); redirect (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); redirect (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); redirect (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); redirect (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); redirect (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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