different between website vs paywall

English

Alternative forms

• web site, web-site, Web site

Etymology

web +? site

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?b?sa?t/

Noun

website (plural websites)

1. (Internet) A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base URL and reside on the same server.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:website

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:website

Hyponyms

Descendants

• ? Car Nicobarese: vep sait
• ? Danish: website
• ? Dutch: website
• ? German: Website f
• ? Japanese: ??????, ???
• ? Persian: ???????? (veb-sayt)
• ? Portuguese: website
• ? Russian: ???-????? (veb-sájt), ???? (sajt)
• ? Spanish: website
• ? Swedish: webbsajt, sajt

Translations

Further reading

• website on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English web site, website.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?w?b??s?jd?]

Noun

website n or c (singular definite websitet or websiten, plural indefinite websites, plural definite websitene)

1. web site [from 1995]

Synonyms

• hjemmeside
• site
• webside
• websted

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English website.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p.s?i?t/
• Hyphenation: web?site

Noun

website m (plural websites, diminutive websiteje n)

1. web site

Synonyms

• internetsite
• site
• webstek

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• web site

Etymology

Borrowed from English website.

Noun

website m (plural websites)

1. web site

   Synonyms: site, saite, sítio, sítio eletrónico

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English website.

Noun

website m (plural websites)

1. website

English

Etymology

From pay +? wall, by analogy with firewall.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pe?.w??l/

Noun

paywall (plural paywalls)

1. (informal, computing) A feature of a website, application or service that only allows access to certain content or functions upon payment.
   • 2012, Dennis F. Herrick, Media Management in the Age of Giants: Business Dynamics of Journalism. Second Edition., UNM Press (?ISBN), page 332

   • 2015, Brian Gorman, Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP (?ISBN), page 140

Derived terms

• hard paywall
• soft paywall
• paywalled

Translations

Verb

paywall (third-person singular simple present paywalls, present participle paywalling, simple past and past participle paywalled)

1. (informal, computing, transitive) To restrict access to (a Web site or other resource) by means of a paywall.

Further reading

• paywall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia