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Reference

noun

1.

A remark that calls attention to something or someone. Synonym: mention. "There was no mention of it" , "The speaker made several references to his wife"

2.

A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage. Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation. "The acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book" , "The article includes mention of similar clinical cases"

3.

An indicator that orients you generally. Synonyms: point of reference, reference point.

4.

A book to which you can refer for authoritative facts. Synonyms: book of facts, reference book, reference work.

5.

A formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability. Synonyms: character, character reference.

6.

The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to. Synonyms: denotation, extension.

7.

The act of referring or consulting. Synonym: consultation.

8.

A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to. Synonym: source. "He spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"

9.

(computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored. Synonyms: address, computer address.

10.

The relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to.

verb

1.

Refer to. Synonym: cite.

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"Reference" Quotes from Famous Books

... that the special reference to the fact that Whittington was three times Lord Mayor is not to be found in either the ballads or ...

— The History of Sir Richard Whittington • T. H.

... imaginary actors. The outlines of this story are given in 'Historical Anecdotes' by Pike. Several additional particulars and the copy of a painting of the Indians at Meeting are to be found in the Friends' Reference Library at Devonshire House. For some helpful notes about the locality I am indebted to H.P. Morris ...

— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin

... gently; "the arena must yet be sanded!" This she said having reference to the covering up of the bloodstains at the gladiatorial shows with fine sand. "Well," she went on, "waste not thine anger on a thing so vile. I have thrown my throw and I have lost. Vae victis!—ah! Vae victis! Wilt thou not lend me the dagger in thy robe, that here and ...

— Cleopatra • H. Rider Haggard

... "What has a woman to do with dates—cold, false, erroneous, chronological dates—new style, old style, precession of the equinox, ill-timed calculation of comets long since due at their station and never come? Her poetical idiosyncrasy, calculated by epochs, would make the most natural points of reference in woman's autobiography. Plutarch sets the example of dropping dates in favor of incidents; and an authority more appropriate, Madame de Genlis, who began her own memoirs at eighty, swept through nearly an age of incident and ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various

... the society shall be open to all persons who desire to further nut culture, without reference to place of residence or nationality, subject to the rules and regulations of the ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting - Washington, D. C. October 7 AND 8, 1920 • Various

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