Referee vs. Reference
Referee and Reference Definitions
Referee
One to whom something is referred, especially for settlement, decision, or an opinion as to the thing's quality.
Reference
The act of referring to something
Filed away the article for future reference.
Referee
Sports & Games An official supervising the play; an umpire.
Reference
Significance for a specified matter; relation or relationship
Her speeches have special reference to environmental policy.
Referee
(Law) A person appointed by a court to assist a judge in the trying of a case or to hear certain types of cases.
Reference
Meaning or denotation
The reference of the word “lion” is to a kind of wild cat.
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Referee
To judge as referee.
Reference
A mention of an occurrence or situation
Made frequent references to her promotion.
Referee
To act as referee.
Reference
A note in a publication referring the reader to another passage or source.
Referee
(sports) An umpire or judge; an official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game.
The referee kicked Jim out of the game for fighting.
Reference
The passage or source so referred to.
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Referee
A person who settles a dispute.
Reference
A work frequently used as a source.
Referee
(UK) A person who writes a letter of reference or provides a reference by phone call for someone. US English: reference.
Your application, along with letters from three referees, should be received by January 31.
Reference
A mark or footnote used to direct a reader elsewhere for additional information.
Referee
An expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published.
Reference
Submission of a case to a referee.
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Referee
To act as a referee.
He has to referee three hockey games this weekend.
She has to finish refereeing an article for Nature.
Reference
Legal proceedings conducted before or by a referee.
Referee
One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.
Reference
A person who recommends another or who can vouch for another's fitness or qualifications, as for a job.
Referee
(sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play
Reference
A statement about a person's qualifications, character, and dependability.
Referee
Someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
Reference
To supply (a text) with references
The author hadn't adequately referenced the third chapter, so the copyeditor suggested adding more citations. This article is thoroughly referenced with up-to-date sources.
Referee
An attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case
Reference
To cite as a reference
The monograph doesn't reference any peer-reviewed articles.
Referee
Be a referee or umpire in a sports competition
Reference
Usage Problem To mention or allude to
The comedian's monologue referenced many Hollywood stars.
Referee
Evaluate professionally a colleague's work
Reference
A relationship or relation (to something).
Reference
A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.
Reference
Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
Reference
A person who provides this information; onlyn in UK English: a referee.
Reference
A reference work.
Reference
(attributive) That which serves as a reference work.
Reference Dictionary of Linguistics
Reference
The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
Reference
(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.
Reference
(academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
Reference
(academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
Reference
(computing) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
Reference
A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as
™ for the ™ symbol.Reference
(obsolete) Appeal.
Reference
To provide a list of references for (a text).
You must thoroughly reference your paper before submitting it.
Reference
To refer to, to use as a reference.
Reference the dictionary for word meanings.
Reference
To mention, to cite.
In his speech, the candidate obliquely referenced the past failures of his opponent.
Reference
(programming) To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory.
The given pointer will reference the actual generated data.
Reference
The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.
Reference
That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.
Reference
Relation; regard; respect.
Something that hath a reference to my state.
Reference
One who, or that which, is referred to.
Reference
The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision.
Reference
Appeal.
Reference
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
Reference
A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage;
The student's essay failed to list several important citations
The acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book
The article includes mention of similar clinical cases
Reference
An indicator that orients you generally;
It is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved
Reference
A book to which you can refer for authoritative facts;
He contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic
Reference
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 to often answered evasively
Reference
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
Reference
The act of referring or consulting;
Reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer
Reference
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
Reference
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
Reference
Refer to;
He referenced his colleagues' work
