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REDIRECT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does redirect mean?
• REDIRECT (verb)
The verb REDIRECT has 1 sense:
1. channel into a new direction
Familiarity information: REDIRECT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: redirected
Past participle: redirected
-ing form: redirecting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Channel into a new direction
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
airt; redirect
Context example:
redirect your attention to the danger from the fundamentalists
Hypernyms (to "redirect" is one way to...):
direct; send (cause to go somewhere)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "redirect"):
sublimate (direct energy or urges into useful activities)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples
Another idea is to import volatiles by redirecting comets and asteroids to hit Mars.
(Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology, NASA)
I could only redirect it and hand it to him in silence.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Both concepts would require redirecting an asteroid less than 32 feet (10 meters) in size into the moon's orbit.
(NASA announces latest progress in hunt for asteroids, NASA)
Mars will move to Scorpio for the first time in two years on November 18 and redirect your attention back to your living situation.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
In addition, IL13-zetakine redirected CTLs induce production of certain cytokines.
(Allogeneic IL13-Zetakine/HyTK-Expressing-Glucocorticoid Resistant Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes GRm13Z40-2, NCI Thesaurus)
Methylation of CBP by CARM1 blocks CBP from acting as a coactivator for CREB and redirects the limited CBP pool in the cell to be available for steroid hormone receptors.
(CARM1 Transcription Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Data also came from Jason-1, NASA's satellite that was redirected to map gravity fields during the last year of its 12-year mission.
(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)
In what is called a target-of-opportunity observation, NuSTAR was redirected to take a look at high-energy X-rays from this source in the range of 3 to 79 kiloelectron volts.
(NuSTAR sees rare blurring of black hole light, NASA)
The process of experimentally manipulating the immune response in order to redirect its specificity and intensity by developing novel molecular, chemical, and cellular procedures to alter the outcome of immune reactions.
(Immune Targeting, NCI Thesaurus)
In both cases, the asteroid mass could be captured by the ARM capture mechanism and redirected into lunar orbit.
(NASA announces latest progress in hunt for asteroids, NASA)
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