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UK
/ɹˈɛfɹəns/
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[ US /ˈɹɛfɝəns, ˈɹɛfɹəns/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛfɝəns, ˈɹɛfɹəns/ ]
NOUN
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a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts
he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic - (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
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an indicator that orients you generally
it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved -
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 -
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 -
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 short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book
the student's essay failed to list several important citations
the article includes mention of similar clinical cases -
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 -
the act of referring or consulting
reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer
VERB
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refer to
he referenced his colleagues' work
How To Use reference In A Sentence
- Mass culture is supposedly a leveler and globalizer - by definition, we all share mass cultural references.
- This also suggests that this deity was first adopted by the tradition of the monastery of Sa-gya, [26] a hypothesis further confirmed by the reference in the founding myth to his being taken over by the holder of the Sa-gya throne So-nam-rin-chen (bsod nams rin chen). The Shugden Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part I)
- Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace
- The results showed that cumulative OP exposure from about two-dozen foods often exceeded a child's acceptable Reference Dose (RfD).
- Keep the list of numbers near the phone for easy reference.
- Their feet clattered over the faux marble floor past the reference desk towards the closet.
- The authors of the second paper admit that “other variables … influence the binding avidity (preference), such as type of SA (sialic acid of the receptor site) and glycosylation and sialylation of the hemagglutinin close to the receptor binding site. †These factors all vary obviously and there are other variables in the equation as well including the status of specific areas of the immune system. Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer
- The index is good but the references do not provide easy access to the research literature.
- Having obtained the metacentric height, reference to a diagram will at once show the whole range of stability; and this being ascertained at each loading, the stowage of the cargo can be so adjusted as to avoid excessive stiffness in the one hand and dangerous tenderness on the other. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
- For observe: this love of what is called ideality or beauty in preference to truth, operates not only in making us choose the past rather than the present for our subjects, but it makes us falsify the present when we do take it for our subject. Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853
