URL

English

The URL is together with the URN inside any URI

Pronunciation

• (initialism)
  • (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌjuːˌɑːɹˈɛl/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌjuˌɑɹˈɛl/
• (acronym)
  • (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɜːl/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ɝl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Audio (US):

  (file)

  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l

    Homophone: earl

Noun

URL (plural URLs)

1. Initialism of 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.

   Hypernyms: IRI, URI

   1. (metonymically) a domain name
      • 2010 September 14, Kit Eaton, “From URLs to Apple Apps: A Brief History of Cybersquatting”, in Fast Company‎^[1]:

        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.

      • 2011 June 14, Michael Agger, “Google Kids: The Sequel”, in Slate‎^[2]:

        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.

      • 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^[3]:

        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.

      • 2013 November 16, Ben Richmond, “Some of the Fraudulent Obamacare Sites Work Better Than the Real Thing”, in Motherboard‎^[4]:

        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 […]

      • 2023 May 30, Sarah Jones, “The Revolt of the Other Mothers”, in Intelligencer‎^[5]:

        She bought a URL from GoDaddy and Defense of Democracy was born.

2. (US, military, nautical) Initialism of unrestricted line officer.

   Hypernym: line officer

3. (medicine, statistics) Initialism of upper reference limit.

   Coordinate term: LRL

Derived terms

• clean URL
• URL injection
• URL rot

 

Translations

Uniform Resource Locator

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 統一資源定位符 / 统一资源定位符 (zh) (tǒngyī zīyuán dìngwèifú)

• Dutch: URL (nl) m
• Finnish: URL (fi), verkko-osoite (fi), web-osoite, urli (slang), URL-osoite
• French: URL (fr) m or f
• Georgian: საინფორმაციო რესურსის მაჩვენებელი (sainpormacio resursis mačvenebeli)
• German: URL (de) m or f
• Greek: ΟΕΠ (OEP) (ομοιόμορφος εντοπιστής πόρων (omoiómorfos entopistís póron)), ιστοδιεύθυνση f (istodiéfthynsi)
• Hawaiian: helu kahuapaʻa
• Icelandic: vefslóð
• Japanese: 統一資源位置指定子 (tōitsu shigen ichi shiteishi)
• Portuguese: endereço (pt)
• Scottish Gaelic: seòladh-lìn m
• Swedish: URL (sv) c
• Turkish: BKB (tr), URL (tr)
• Yiddish: או־ער־על m (u-er-el)

See also

• URL on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lur

Japanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jɯ̟ːa̠ːɾɯ̟e̞ɾɯ̟]

Noun

URL(ユーアールエル) • (yūārueru) 

1. Uniform Resource Locator

Synonyms

• 統(とう)一(いつ)資(し)源(げん)位(い)置(ち)指(し)定(てい)子(し) (tōitsushigen'ichishiteishi), うらる (uraru)

Swedish

Alternative forms

• url

Noun

URL c

1. (Internet) A URL, a Uniform Resource Locator.
   • 2024 May 17, Kristian Kask, Petter Ahrnstedt, “Twitters namnbyte är nu helt färdigt [Twitter's name change is now complete]”, in M3:

     Nu ska dock namnbytet äntligen vara helt färdigt, Elon Musk meddelade att alla system på sociala medieplattfomen nu ligger på url:en x.com. Skriver du in twitter.com i adressfältet ska du omdirigeras till den nya url:en.

     The name change is now finally complete, as Elon Musk announced that all systems on the social media platform are now hosted at the URL x.com. If you type twitter.com into the address bar, you will be redirected to the new URL.

2. (law) Abbreviation of upphovsrättslagen (“The Swedish Copyright Act”).
   • 2020 April 16, Petter Holm, “Järnrörsfilmaren vinner i HD – upphovsrättslagen bör ändras [The "iron pipe" filmmaker wins in the supreme court – copyright law should be changed]”, in Dagens Jurudik:

     En utgångspunkt som domstolar brukar upprepa är att URL:s inskränkningar är undantag, som ska tolkas restriktivt och enligt sin ordalydelse. 23 § 3 p. URL möjliggör återgivande av ett verk i samband med rapportering av en dagshändelse i en tidning eller tidskrift, om det sker i enlighet med god sed och i den omfattning som motiveras av ändamålet.

     A principle often reiterated by courts is that the exceptions in the Swedish Copyright Act are exceptions that should be interpreted restrictively and according to their wording. Section 23, Paragraph 3 of the Swedish Copyright Act allows for the reproduction of a work in connection with reporting a current event in a newspaper or magazine, provided it is done in accordance with good practice and to the extent justified by the purpose.

Declension

Declension of URL

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	URL	URL:s
	definite	URL:n URL:en	URL:ns URL:ens
plural	indefinite	URL:er	URL:ers
	definite	URL:erna	URL:ernas

Derived terms

(Uniform Resource Locator):

• URL-adress
• URL-förkortare
• URL-strukturer