refer
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refer
- /ɹɪˈfɜː/ Australia, UK
- /ɹɪˈfɝ/ Canada, US
- /ɹɪˈfɛr/ Scotland
- /ɹəˈføː/ New Zealand
- /ɹɪˈfeː/
- /ɹɪˈfɛː/
- /ɹɪˈfɜː(ɹ)/
- /ˈɹiːfə/ UK
- /ˈɹifɚ/ Canada, US
- /ˈɹiːfə/ Australia, New Zealand
Sounds like reefer · Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ), -iːfə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English referren, from Old French referer, from Latin referre. The noun (used in journalism) is from the verb. Doublet of relate. See also infer, collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.
verb refers · referring · referred
- To direct the attention of (someone toward something). The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
- To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere. He referred the matter to the principal.
- 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. He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
- To mention (something); to direct attention (to something). To explain the problem, the teacher referred to an example in another textbook.
- To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to. The recipe referred to several unusual ingredients.
- To be referential to another element in a sentence.
- To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. In C, the pointer obtained by &a refers to the variable a.
- To require to resit an examination. Smith's marks in the finals were unsatisfactory and he was referred.
- To have the meaning of, to denote. The nickname "Big Apple" refers to the city of New York.
- To cause (pain) to be felt elsewhere. Inferior head refers pain to the TMJ area and the superior head refers pain to the zygomatic area.
- To apparently relocate; to be felt in another place than where it is actually caused. Pain from the hip often refers to the knee.
noun refers
- 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. A refer on page 1 of the Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, edition of The Herald-News contained incorrect information about the story “Neighbors at odds over Joliet liquor license” that appeared on Page 4 of the same edition.
