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Url vs Website - What's the difference?

url | website |

As an initialism url

is a uniform resource locator: the address of a web page, ftp site, audio stream or other internet resource.

As an abbreviation url

is (us|military|nautical) unrestricted line officer.

As a noun website is

.

url

English

Initialism

(en noun)
  • A Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, ftp site, audio stream or other Internet resource.
    • https://en.wiktionary.org/ is the URL of English Wiktionary.

    See also

    * IRI * URI * (wikipedia "URL")

    Abbreviation

    ; URL
  • (US, military, nautical) unrestricted line officer

    • See also

    * line officer English acronyms English initialisms

    website

    English

    (wikipedia website)

    Noun

    (en noun)
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