refer
Meaning
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- To direct the attention of (someone toward something)
- To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
- 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.
- To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)
- To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
- To be referential to another element in a sentence.
- To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object.
- To require to resit an examination.
- To have the meaning of, to denote.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
re‧fer
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɹɪˈfɜː/
Etymology
From Middle English referren, from Old French referer, from Latin referre. The noun (used in journalism) is from the verb.
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