Refer vs Redirect - What's the difference?
refer | redirect |
To direct the attention of.
To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
(rfex) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
# (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence
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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
In transitive terms the difference between refer and redirect
is that refer is to place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation while redirect is to instruct to go, inquire ... elsewhere.As a noun redirect is
a redirection.refer
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Verb
(referr)- The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
- He referred the matter to the principal.
- to refer a patient to a psychiatrist
- He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
