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Reference   /rˈɛfərəns/  /rˈɛfrəns/   Listen
Reference

noun
1.
A remark that calls attention to something or someone.  Synonym: mention.  "There was no mention of it" , "The speaker made several references to his wife"
2.
A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage.  Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation.  "The acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book" , "The article includes mention of similar clinical cases"
3.
An indicator that orients you generally.  Synonyms: point of reference, reference point.
4.
A book to which you can refer for authoritative facts.  Synonyms: book of facts, reference book, reference work.
5.
A formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability.  Synonyms: character, character reference.
6.
The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to.  Synonyms: denotation, extension.
7.
The act of referring or consulting.  Synonym: consultation.
8.
A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to.  Synonym: source.  "He spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"
9.
(computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored.  Synonyms: address, computer address.
10.
The relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to.
verb
1.
Refer to.  Synonym: cite.



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"Reference" Quotes from Famous Books



... those housemothers, who are the majority of the women of every country, as "without occupation." It is possible for men to speak of "giving" their wives what they think is needed for the household and without reference to any personal preference of the wives in expenditure, as if it were an act of charity and not a debt owed ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer

... man with the model of the first Temple reared to the Divinity. The arrangement of the Temple of Solomon, the symbolic ornaments which formed its chief decorations, and the dress of the High Priest,—all, as Clemens of Alexandria, Josephus and Philo state, had reference to the order of the world. Clemens informs us that the Temple contained many emblems of the Seasons, the Sun, the Moon, the planets, the constellations Ursa Major and Minor, the zodiac, the elements, and the other parts of ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike

... Philip Brabazon inferred a kind of divinely appointed dictatorship over the souls and bodies of the various members of his household which even included the right to arrange and determine their lives for them, without reference to their ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler

... back from it, its lagoons, the places at which the tribes assembled, its junctions, tributaries and creeks, together with our several positions, were all regularly noted, so that on our return up the river we had no difficulty in ascertaining upon what part of it we were, by a reference to the chart; and it proved of infinite service to us, since we were enabled to judge of our distance from our several camps, as we gained them day by day with the current against us; and we should often have stopped short of them, weary and exhausted, had we not known that two or three ...
— Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete • Charles Sturt

... remain silent. She had heard from the woman's own lips what she had told Freddy she never would hear; her promise to him flashed through her mind. Her doom was sealed. The psychological and archaeological interest of what Millicent had told her did not penetrate her brain; even her reference to their meeting with a "child of God" fell on deaf ears. Millicent had asked her if she had shared Michael's beliefs in the occult and mystic interpretation of the discovery, in tones which implied that she did ...
— There was a King in Egypt • Norma Lorimer


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