Redirect vs Navigate - What's the difference?
redirect | navigate |
To give new direction to, change the direction of.
To instruct to go, inquire ... elsewhere
(computing) To substitute an address or pointer to a new location.
A redirection.
(legal) An examination of a witness, following cross-examination, by the party that conducted the direct examination.
(computing) A substitution of an address or identifier for another one
To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft etc on a journey; to follow a planned course.
To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
(computing) To move from page to page on the internet or within a program by clicking on hyperlinks.
In transitive terms the difference between redirect and navigate
is that redirect is to instruct to go, inquire ... elsewhere while navigate is to plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft etc on a journey; to follow a planned course.As a noun redirect
is a redirection.redirect
English
(wikipedia redirect)Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* reorientNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (legal) redirect examinationnavigate
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Verb
- He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr.
- We navigated to France in the dinghy.
- It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.
