refer
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English referren, from Old French referer, from Latin referre. The noun (used in journalism) is from the verb. Doublet of relate. See also infer, collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.
Inflected forms:
form: refers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: referring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: referred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: referred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: refers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To direct the attention of (someone toward something)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
gloss: To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He referred the matter to the principal.
The doctor may refer patients to a psychiatrist.
I'll refer the objections back to management for reconsideration.
gloss: To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
gloss: To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: To explain the problem, the teacher referred to an example in another textbook.
Her counsel has complained of the charge of the judge, as unprecedented, an innovation on our rules of practice, misconstructive of the true meaning of the law, and referring to laws not applicable to the sale.
She became disrespectfully referred to locally as the "Crab" on account of her extraordinary manoeuvrability.
A provision of law may not be construed as requiring a new grant to be awarded to a specified non-Federal Government entity unless that provision of law (1) specifically refers to this subsection; specifically identifies the particular non-Federal Government entity involved; and (3) specifically states that the award to that entity is required by such provision of law in contravention of the policy set forth in subsection (a).
All hanar have two names. The Face Name is known to the world; the Soul Name is kept for use among close friends and relations. Hanar never refer to themselves in the first person in conversation with someone they know on a Face Name basis. To do so is considered egotistical, so instead they refer to themselves as "this one", or the impersonal "it".
Nonetheless, for many years afterward, she was often referred to as maharani, though that eventually gave way to the less glamorous but more respectful title of rajmata, the equivalent of queen mother.
gloss: To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
stative
examples: The recipe referred to several unusual ingredients.
gloss: To be referential to another element in a sentence.
pos: verb
gloss: To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In C, the pointer obtained by &a refers to the variable a.
Hence, the precise number of bytes to which the pointer refers to is not known. The compiler must know the number of bytes to which a pointer refers to in order to apply dereference operation
gloss: To require to resit an examination.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Smith's marks in the finals were unsatisfactory and he was referred.
gloss: To have the meaning of, to denote.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The nickname "Big Apple" refers to the city of New York.
In programming, a "memory leak" refers to a situation where memory is or stays unnecessarily allocated.
The basic idea is that two sets A and B have the same cardinality if there is a bijection from A to B. Since the domain and range of the bijection is not relevant here, we often refer to a bijection from A to B as a bijection between the sets, or a one-to-one correspondence between the elements of the sets.
gloss: To cause (pain) to be felt elsewhere.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Inferior head refers pain to the TMJ area and the superior head refers pain to the zygomatic area.
gloss: To apparently relocate; to be felt in another place than where it is actually caused.
pos: verb
examples: Pain from the hip often refers to the knee.
gloss: A blurb on the front page of a newspaper issue or section that refers the reader to the full story inside the issue or section by listing its slug or headline and its page number.
pos: noun
examples: A refer on page 1 of the Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, edition of The Herald-News contained incorrect information about the story “Neighbors at odds over Joliet liquor license” that appeared on Page 4 of the same edition.
Looking at the refers on page 2, it's obvious that May became something of an accidental women's issue.
The paper of Sept. 11 was not without its alarms. On Page One, an ominous “refer” (pronounced reefer) to an article inside the paper: Palestinian snipers had killed two Israelis, bringing a retaliatory shelling by Israeli tanks. On A3: A suicide bomber had killed two police officers in Istanbul.
Synonyms: delegate
direct
Related words: reference
referral
relate
relation
relationship
relative
Derived words: corefer
cross-refer
dereferer
misrefer
referee
referent
referment
referologist
referrable
referrer
refer someone to
refer someone to the reply given in Arkell v Pressdram
refer to
rerefer
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