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Defenition of the word reference

    • Defenition of the word reference

      • Reference to something else.
      • A person or thing that is adopted for guidance.
      • A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage.
      • 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 to often answered evasively"
      • a short note acknowledging a source of information or quoting a passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"
      • 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"
      • 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"
      • refer to
      • the act of referring; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"
      • the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos"
      • 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"
      • a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic"
      • an indicator that orients you generally; "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved"
      • the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"
      • 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"
      • 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 to often answered evasively"
      • 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
      • refer to; "he referenced his colleagues'' work"
      • the act of referring or consulting
      • the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
      • the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to
      • (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
      • a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts
      • a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
      • a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
      • a remark that calls attention to something or someone
      • an indicator that orients you generally
      • a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to

    Synonyms for the word reference

      • allusion
      • book of facts
      • character
      • character reference
      • citation
      • cite
      • consultation
      • credit
      • denotation
      • extension
      • good word
      • indication
      • location
      • mention
      • note
      • orientation
      • point of reference
      • position
      • quotation
      • recommendation
      • reference book
      • reference point
      • reference work
      • situation
      • source
      • suggestion
      • testimonial

    Similar words in the reference

      • reference
      • reference's
      • references

    Hyponyms for the word reference

      • allusion
      • annual
      • argument
      • atlas
      • bench mark
      • benchmark
      • book of maps
      • buoy
      • cookbook
      • cookery book
      • criterion
      • cross-index
      • cross-reference
      • cyclopaedia
      • cyclopedia
      • directory
      • enchiridion
      • encyclopaedia
      • encyclopedia
      • handbook
      • instruction book
      • landmark
      • lubber line
      • lubber's line
      • lubber's mark
      • lubber's point
      • map collection
      • mark
      • measure
      • name-dropping
      • parameter
      • photo credit
      • retrospection
      • source book
      • standard
      • target
      • touchstone
      • uniform resource locator
      • universal resource locator
      • url
      • vade mecum
      • white line
      • wordbook
      • yearbook
      • yearly

    Hypernyms for the word reference

      • action
      • annotation
      • book
      • code
      • comment
      • compose
      • computer code
      • good word
      • indicator
      • indite
      • input
      • meaning
      • notation
      • note
      • pen
      • publication
      • recommendation
      • remark
      • sense
      • substance
      • testimonial
      • write

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