Uri definition

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Upper respiratory infection.
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Uniform resource identifier.
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(place) Canton of EC Switzerland: 416 sq mi (1,077 sq km)
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See URL.
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(Uniform Resource Identifier) The addressing technology for identifying resources on the Internet (or private intranet). The URI that is most widely known is the URL, which is the address of a Web page and technically an "HTTP URI." However, the Internet serves many functions (see below). See HTTP, URL and URN.There are more than 200 historical, permanent and provisional URI types, known as "schemes." Following are some of the major ones. For details, visit www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.URI SCHEMEPrefix To gain access to http: Web server https: secure Web server ftp: file server im: instant messaging itms: iTunes streaming news: Usenet newsgroups nntp: Usenet newsgroups mailto: send email (SMTP) imap: IMAP mailbox pop: POP mailbox sip: voice over IP (VoIP) sips: secure VoIP h323: H.323 videoconference ldap: directory request telnet: run program nfs: network file system wais: WAIS server gopher: Gopher server file: local file on host.
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Plural form of uræus.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
uri
Plural:
uris

Uri Sentence Examples

  • In Semitic times Urra was pronounced Uri and confounded with uru, " ciiy "; as a geographical term, however, it was replaced by Akkadu (Akkad), the Semitic form of Agadewritten Akkattim in the Elamite inscriptions - the name of the elder Sargon's capital, which must have stood close to Sippara, if indeed it was not a quarter of Sippara itself.

  • He steers it towards a shelf of rock, called in Russ's time Tell's Platte, springs on shore, shoots the bailiff dead with his crossbow, and goes back to Uri, where he stirs up the great strife which ended in the battle of Morgarten.

  • In these two accounts, which form the basis of the Uri version of the origin of the Confederation, it is Tell and Tell only who is the actor and the leader.

  • According to him the men of Schwyz and of Unterwalden were the first to rise, those of Uri following suit much later But neither Justinger nor Hemmerli makes any allusion to Tell or his feat.

  • In the final recension of Tschudi's Chronicle (1734-36), which, however, differs in many particulars from the original draft still preserved at Zurich, we are told how Albert of Austria, with the view of depriving the Forest lands of their ancient freedom, sent bailiffs (among them Gessler) to Uri and Schwyz, who committed many tyrannical acts, so that finally on 8th November 1307, at the Riitli, Werner von Stauffacher of Schwyz, Walter Fiirst of Uri, Arnold von Melchthal in Unterwalden, each with ten companions, among whom was William Tell, resolved on a rising to expel the oppressors, which was fixed for New Year's Day 1308.

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