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REFERER

"REFERER" is a common misspelling or typo for: referee, referred, referrer.


Specialty Definition: REFERER

DomainDefinition

Computing

Referer A misspelling of "referrer" which somehow made it into the HTTP standard. A given web page's referer (sic) is the URL of whatever web page contains the link that the user followed to the current page. Most browsers pass this information as part of a request. (1998-10-19). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Referer

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A referer (sic) or referring page is the webpage that brought the user or referred them to the current page. The referer is part of the HTTP request sent to a server.

Some Web sites log referers, for advertising or other purposes: the refering Web site may receive a small payment for people who follow an ad ("clickthroughs"). Some browsers and security software allow their users to block this information, to protect their privacy.

Reference

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Referer."

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: REFERER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

referer

34

referer php

5

java referer script

4

referer for asp

3

htttp referer

3

member msn.americangreetings.com referer signin.pd

2

check referer validator.w3.org

2

change referer

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: REFERER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-r-r-r"

-1 letter: reefer.

-2 letters: freer, frere, refer.

-3 letters: fere, free, reef.

-4 letters: ere, err, fee, fer, ree, ref.

-5 letters: ef, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-f-r-r-r"
 

+1 letter: deferrer, ferreter, referred, referrer.

 

+2 letters: deferrers, ferreters, preferred, preferrer, referrers, refresher.

 

+3 letters: interferer, preferrers, refreshers.

 

+4 letters: forevermore, interferers, misreferred, refrigerate.

 

+5 letters: refrigerated, refrigerates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: REFERER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 46 45 52 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    ..-.    .    .-.    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000101 01000110 01000101 01010010 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#70 &#69 &#82 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0046 0045 0052 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52394039523952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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