Redirect vs. Rewrite — What's the Difference?

To cause to move in a different direction or go to a different destination

To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise.

To give directions for an alternate destination to (someone).

To put (material submitted to a newspaper or magazine) in a form suitable for publishing.

To change the object or focus of (attention).

(Computers) To save (a usually altered file) over its most recent version in the same storage location.

(Law) A redirect examination.

To make revisions in written material.

(Sports) A deflection by one player of a shot or pass by a teammate, as in hockey.

The act or an instance of rewriting.

(Computers) A website that serves only to guide users to another website, typically when a website at one URL has been moved to a different URL.

Something rewritten.

(transitive) To give new direction to, change the direction of.

The act of writing again or anew.

(transitive) To instruct to go, inquire, elsewhere.

Something that has been written again.

To substitute an address or pointer to a new location.

(transitive) To write again, differently; to modify (a piece of writing or music, etc.).

(computing) To send to a new location by substituting an address or pointer. transivity?

(transitive) To write out again (without changes).

A redirection.

To write again.

(legal) An examination of a witness, following cross-examination, by the party that conducted the direct examination.

Something that has been written again;

(computing) The substitution of one address or identifier for another one, so as to navigate to a different location.

Write differently; alter the writing of;

Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.

Rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose;

Channel into a new direction;