refer
IPA: rʌfˈɝ
noun
- (journalism) 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.
verb
- (transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)
- (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)
- (intransitive, stative) To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
- (grammar) To be referential to another element in a sentence.
- (intransitive, programming) To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. [+ to (object)]
- (transitive, education) To require to resit an examination.
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Examples of "refer" in Sentences
- The citation was in the reference.
- Both of the mentioned terms refer to the same idiom.
- Do the references refer to the safety of the fetuses
- Refer to the Bastard Swords under the Longsword reference.
- No links in the reference except at the end of the reference.
- The reference is used to corroborate, not to provide the quote.
- Anyway, a lack of references is a problem, a surfeit of references is not.
- But what in speaking do we refer to more familiarly and knowingly than time
- Thanks for the reference to the Bhola cyclone mention in the Pakistan article.
- It makes offhand reference to the second, but does not even mention the first.
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