reference
Nouns
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(n) a remark that calls attention to something or someone
- she made frequent mention of her promotion
- there was no mention of it
- the speaker made several references to his wife
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(n) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- the student's essay failed to list several important citations
- the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book
- the article includes mention of similar clinical cases
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(n) an indicator that orients you generally
- it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved
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(n) a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts
- he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic
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(n) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
- requests for character references are all too often answered evasively
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(n) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- the extension of "satellite of Mars" is the set containing only Demos and Phobos
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(n) the act of referring or consulting
- reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer
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(n) a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
- he carried an armful of references back to his desk
- he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation
- (n) (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored address, computer address,
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(n) the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to
- he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes
Verbs
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(v) refer to
- he referenced his colleagues' work