Refer vs. Reference

To direct to a source for help or information

The act of referring to something

To submit (a matter in dispute) to an authority for arbitration, decision, or examination.

Significance for a specified matter; relation or relationship

To direct the attention of

Meaning or denotation

To assign or attribute to; regard as originated by.

A mention of an occurrence or situation

To assign to or regard as belonging within a particular kind or class

A note in a publication referring the reader to another passage or source.

To relate or pertain; concern

The passage or source so referred to.

To serve as a descriptor or have as a denotation

A work frequently used as a source.

To speak or write about something briefly or incidentally; make reference

A mark or footnote used to direct a reader elsewhere for additional information.

To turn one's attention, as in seeking information

Submission of a case to a referee.

(transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)

Legal proceedings conducted before or by a referee.

(transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.

A person who recommends another or who can vouch for another's fitness or qualifications, as for a job.

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.

A statement about a person's qualifications, character, and dependability.

(intransitive) To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)

To supply (a text) with references

To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.

To cite as a reference

(grammar) To be referential to another element in a sentence.

Usage Problem To mention or allude to

To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. to

A relationship or relation (to something).

Required to resit an examination.

A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.

(journalism) 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.

Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.

To carry or send back.

A person who provides this information; onlyn in UK English: a referee.

Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.

A reference work.

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; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.

(attributive) That which serves as a reference work.

To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.

The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.

To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.

(semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.

To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.

(academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.

To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

(academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.

Make reference to;

(computing) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.

Have to do with or be relevant to;

A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.

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

(obsolete) Appeal.

Send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision;

To provide a list of references for (a text).

Seek information from;

To refer to, to use as a reference.

Have as a meaning;

To mention, to cite.

(programming) To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory.

The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.

That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.

Relation; regard; respect.

One who, or that which, is referred to.

The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision.

Appeal.

A remark that calls attention to something or someone;

A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage;

An indicator that orients you generally;

A book to which you can refer for authoritative facts;

A formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability;

The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to;

The act of referring or consulting;

A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to;

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

Refer to;