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Refer

verb

(past & past part. referred; pres. part. referring)

Make reference to. Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, name.

Be relevant to. Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, relate, touch, touch on. "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"

Think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another.

Send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision. "Refer a bill to a committee"

Seek information from. Synonyms: consult, look up. "Refer to your notes"

Have as a meaning. Synonym: denote.

Use a name to designate.

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"Refer" Quotes from Famous Books

... first time I had heard my aunt refer to her past history. There was a magnanimity in her quiet way of doing so, and of dismissing it, which would have exalted her in my respect and affection, ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... seem to you a bold thing for Sylvia to have made a joke about my hat, it is only because you do not yet know her. I have referred to her money-consciousness and her social-consciousness; I would be idealizing her if I did not refer to another aspect of her which appalled me when I came to realise it—her clothes-consciousness. She knew every variety of fabric and every shade of colour and every style of design that ever had been delivered of the ...

— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair

... Congress providing for the equipment of our vessels of war having been fully carried into execution, I refer to the statement of the Secretary of the Navy for the information which may be proper on that subject. To that statement is added a view of the transfers of appropriations authorized by the act of the session preceding the last and of the grounds on ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... of poems and of tales are almost innumerable, but nearly all are devoid of merit and poorly edited in selection, text, and notes. (This does not refer to the small collections for study in schools.) The best are the following: "Tales of Mystery," Unit Book Publishing Company, New York (72 cents); "The Best Tales of Edgar Allan Poe," edited with critical studies by Sherwin Cody, A.C. McClurg & Company, ...

— Selections From Poe • J. Montgomery Gambrill

... United States has realized its importance and has outlined a social service programme for Catholic agencies. They have field-secretaries and instructors—often Knights of Columbus—throughout the country, carrying on this welfare work. I would refer the reader to the monthly Bulletin of the National Catholic Welfare Council for an idea of the extensive work of their Catholic social activities. It is simply wonderful. As times change our activities also have to ...

— Catholic Problems in Western Canada • George Thomas Daly

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