Difference between attention-refer and refer

refer

Definitions

verb

  1. seek information from
  2. think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another
  3. use a name to designate
  4. make reference to
  5. have as a meaning
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Examples

She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow.

The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ...

Which of them will prefer football and which the ant nest, we'll have to wait and see.

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