ref

IPA: rˈɛf

(Philippines, informal) refrigerator.
A surname.
(informal) Clipping of referee. [(sports) An umpire or judge; an official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game.]
Abbreviation of reference. [(literary or archaic) A relationship or relation (to something).]
Abbreviation of refectory. [A dining hall, especially in an institution such as a college or monastery.]
(mathematics, linear algebra) Initialism of row echelon form. [(linear algebra) The stepped appearance of a matrix that has undergone Gaussian elimination with the result that the leading coefficient or pivot (that is, the first nonzero number from the left) of a nonzero row is to the right of the pivot of the row above it.]
(UK, education) Initialism of Research Excellence Framework: a system for assessing the quality of research in higher-education institutions.

(informal, transitive, intransitive) To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game.

Examples of "ref" in Sentences

That second ref is a link from the Dispatch's archive.
` ` If you look at the replay, the ref is standing there watching it.
I think employing the Godfather ref is a bit too subtle for Bush. rayc Says:
· id 617761: In dot graphs now also @ref worked (previously only \ref was supported).
Jim DeMint – Republican in ref to Obama's attempt at making healthcare affordable to everyone.
` ` I was like, 'Man, you're pushing me and doing all those things to throw me off - balance and the ref is not seeing it.
` ` I feel that's one you just have to call, '' Johnson said, ` ` when it's a crucial situation like that and the ref is standing right there. ''
Whatever the validity of Leicester's complaints, screaming four? letter, nationality-themed, integrity? questioning obscenities at the ref is neither big nor clever.
AssumeFPS ( "ntsc_film") set input = D: \test. avs set output = D: \imgseqtest_v. mkv set ref = 5 set bframes = 5 set x264Path = D: \x264. exe % x264Path% % input% -- preset fast -- ref % ref% -- bframes % bframes% -- output % output% avs [warning]: converting input clip to YV12 avs [info]
Or if I want to see a police officer in a time frame where the person concerned might be caught, I report a couple having a domestic, who called me a derogatory name ref my Race, Religion, or sexual preference (underline the relevant option) and just out of interest they broke the wing mirror on my car.