Refer vs. Referral: What's the Difference?

Refer and Referral Definitions
Refer
To direct to a source for help or information
Referred her to a heart specialist.
Referred me to his last employer for a recommendation.
Referral
To direct to a source for help or information
Referred her to a heart specialist.
Referred me to his last employer for a recommendation.
Refer
To submit (a matter in dispute) to an authority for arbitration, decision, or examination.
Referral
To submit (a matter in dispute) to an authority for arbitration, decision, or examination.
Refer
To direct the attention of
I refer you to the training manual.
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Referral
To direct the attention of
I refer you to the training manual.
Refer
To assign or attribute to; regard as originated by.
Referral
To assign or attribute to; regard as originated by.
Refer
To assign to or regard as belonging within a particular kind or class
Referred the newly discovered partita to the 1600s.
Referral
To assign to or regard as belonging within a particular kind or class
Referred the newly discovered partita to the 1600s.
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Refer
To relate or pertain; concern
Questions referring to yesterday's lecture.
Referral
To relate or pertain; concern
Questions referring to yesterday's lecture.
Refer
To serve as a descriptor or have as a denotation
The word chair refers to a piece of furniture.
Referral
To serve as a descriptor or have as a denotation
The word chair refers to a piece of furniture.
Refer
To speak or write about something briefly or incidentally; make reference
Referred during our conversation to several books he was reading.
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Referral
To speak or write about something briefly or incidentally; make reference
Referred during our conversation to several books he was reading.
Refer
To turn one's attention, as in seeking information
Refer to a dictionary.
Referral
To turn one's attention, as in seeking information
Refer to a dictionary.
Refer
(transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)
The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
Referral
The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
The insurance company insists I get a referral from my regular doctor. I can't just go to the specialist; a GP has got to refer me.
Refer
(transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
He referred the matter to the principal.
To refer a patient to a psychiatrist
Referral
(slang) A document used by schools detailing some form of a student's misbehavior and listing the actions taken before and after the student's receipt of the referral.
After misbehaving in class, George was given a referral for disrupting class and sent to the office.
Refer
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.
He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
Referral
A recommendation to consult the (professional) person referred to;
This patient is a referral from Dr. Bones
Refer
(intransitive) To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)
To explain the problem, the teacher referred to an example in another textbook.
Referral
The act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency)
Refer
To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
The recipe referred to several unusual ingredients.
Refer
(grammar) To be referential to another element in a sentence.
Refer
To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. to
In C, the pointer obtained by
&a
refers to the variable a
.Refer
Required to resit an examination.
Smith's marks in the finals were unsatisfactory and he was referred.
Refer
(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.
Refer
To carry or send back.
Refer
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.
Refer
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.
I'll refer me to all things sense.
Refer
To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.
In suits . . . it is to refer to some friend of trust.
Refer
To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.
Of those places that refer to the shutting and opening the abyss, I take notice of that in Job.
Refer
To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.
Refer
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.
Now to the universal whole advert:The earth regard as of that whole a part.
Refer
Make reference to;
His name was mentioned in connection with the invention
Refer
Have to do with or be relevant to;
There were lots of questions referring to her talk
My remark pertained to your earlier comments
Refer
Think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another;
This plant can be referred to a known species
Refer
Send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision;
Refer a patient to a specialist
Refer a bill to a committee
Refer
Seek information from;
You should consult the dictionary
Refer to your notes
Refer
Have as a meaning;
`multi-' denotes `many'