WEBSITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does website mean? 

• WEBSITE (noun)
  The noun WEBSITE has 1 sense:

1. a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web

  Familiarity information: WEBSITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEBSITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

internet site; site; web site; website

Context example:

the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers

Hypernyms ("website" is a kind of...):

computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "website"):

chat room; chatroom (a site on the internet where a number of users can communicate in real time (typically one dedicated to a particular topic))

portal; portal site (a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet)

 Context examples 

A man recently wrote to me on my website.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Sources of information such as libraries, databases, and websites.

(Information Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

It took down Dyn clients, including several popular websites such as Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Reddit, New York Times, and Wired.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)

Katrin Pfuhlmann, lead author of the study, described the effect in a statement posted on the center's official website.

(German scientists find potential treatment for obesity, Agência Brasil)

A complete reference to a website (including http://) from which the document contents can be retrieved.

(Document Version Uniform Resource Locator, NCI Thesaurus)

Internet Mobile Technology (e.g. iphone, mobile websites, epocrates)

(Internet Mobile Technology, Food and Drug Administration)

Since the launch of NASA’s Disk Detective website in January 2014, approximately 30,000 citizen scientists have performed roughly two million classifications of stellar objects, including those that led to this discovery.

(A Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets, NASA)

A reference (link) from some point in one hypertext document to another document, another place in the same document, or a website.

(Hyperlink, NCI Thesaurus)

The introductory page of a website; its navigational starting point.

(Home Page, NCI Thesaurus)

But due to this flaw, an attacker can send malware or ransomware on the websites.

(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)