URL en · NOUN
Meanings
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource.
alt of Uniform Resource Locator
https://en.wiktionary.org/ is the URL of the English Wiktionary.
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(metonymically) Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource. ▸ A domain name.
She bought a URL from GoDaddy and Defense of Democracy was born.
2023 May 30, Sarah Jones, “The Revolt of the Other Mothers”, in Intelligencer, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2024:For a few days leading up to Christmas that year, Howe set up a kiosk in a mall that sold domain names to average shoppers. They sold about 50 of them to people who were persuaded to buy a url and a hosting package for a present instead of a traditional gift for families and friends.
2012 December 31, Alyson Shontell, “Meet Page Howe, A Man Who Made Millions Selling 2 Of The World's Most Expensive Domain Names”, in Business Insider, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2018:Some of them appear to be simple website squatting, buying URLs in hopes that someone else will pay a premium for the real estate later […]
2013 November 16, Ben Richmond, “Some of the Fraudulent Obamacare Sites Work Better Than the Real Thing”, in Motherboard, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2024:Google itself has even been accused of profiting from the work of cybersquatters who buy URLs that are near to famous ones, but which often get mistyped–a practice known as typosquatting.
2010 September 14, Kit Eaton, “From URLs to Apple Apps: A Brief History of Cybersquatting”, in Fast Company, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2024:This illegal activity involves buying a URL that’s a misspelling of a popular kids site, e.g. bobthebiulder.com, and then serving hardcore porn ads.
2011 June 14, Michael Agger, “Google Kids: The Sequel”, in Slate, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2019:
- (Internet) Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource. ▸ The username associated with a Tumblr blog and typically included in its URL.
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(US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of unrestricted line officer.
alt of unrestricted line officer
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of upper reference limit.
alt of upper reference limit
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| URLs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
URL injection · URL rot · URL encoding · urlfest · clean URL
Hypernyms
URI · line officer · IRI · IRI · URI · URI · IRI
Translations (24)
ka საინფორმაციო რესურსის მაჩვენებელი (Uniform Resource Locator) · de URL (Uniform Resource Locator) · fr URL (Uniform Resource Locator) · cmn 統一資源定位符 /统一资源定位符 (Uniform Resource Locator) · fi urli (Uniform Resource Locator) · yi או־ער־על (Uniform Resource Locator) · haw helu kahuapaʻa (Uniform Resource Locator) · pl URL (Uniform Resource Locator) · sv URL (Uniform Resource Locator) · fi verkko-osoite (Uniform Resource Locator) · cmn 網址 /网址 (Uniform Resource Locator) · pt endereço (Uniform Resource Locator) · tr URL (Uniform Resource Locator) · el ΟΕΠ (Uniform Resource Locator) · tr BKB (Uniform Resource Locator) · fi URL-osoite (Uniform Resource Locator) · is vefslóð (Uniform Resource Locator) · fi URL (Uniform Resource Locator) · ja 統一資源位置指定子 (Uniform Resource Locator) · gd seòladh-lìn (Uniform Resource Locator) · nl URL (Uniform Resource Locator) · fi web-osoite (Uniform Resource Locator) · el ιστοδιεύθυνση (Uniform Resource Locator) · es LRU (Uniform Resource Locator)